[i] Demand Letters and Consumer Protection, Examining Deceptive Practices By Patent Assertion Entities: Hearing before the Subcomm.
Though the activist has repeatedly denounced companies like Monsanto for holding IP rights to patented seeds, which she dubs a "seed monopoly" her assertion is demonstrably deceptive.
According to this objection, one is not lying when one makes a deceptive untruthful ironic statement ('irony lie'), or a deceptive untruthful joke ('joke lie'), or a deceptive untruthful fiction ('fiction lie'), or deceptive untruthful acting ('acting life'), since in none of these cases is one making an assertion.
The Federal Trade Commission has punished some trolls — also known as patent assertion entities — for making deceptive and misleading claims in their demand letters.
Against the assertion that Galileo was deceptive in making these arguments, Albert Einstein expressed the opinion that Galileo developed his "fascinating arguments" and accepted them uncritically out of a desire for physical proof of the motion of the Earth.
Mack cited an assertion in the Washington Post Co.'s motion last year: "The allegation that it 'mandate[d]... predatory and deceptive recruitment and enrollment practices' is unsupported, and the isolated abuses alleged are, in any event, immaterial".
It is possible to argue that Stokke's account of assertion, and hence L17, is faced with a dilemma when it comes to non-deceptive lies.
And now businesses must be wary of the FTC's new assertion that using false pretenses to procure records of individual numbers dialed by a person is an unfair and deceptive business practice in violation of federal fair-trade laws.
Such assertions may paper over the industry's record of double-digit price increases, medical underwriting to exclude applicants from coverage, cancellation of policies for incidental causes, denials of claims, deceptive marketing and generous executive compensation.
