Farney Daniels, P.C.

Farney Daniels, P.C. is a professional corporation operating as a law firm, specializing in intellectual property litigation, particularly patent law. While its headquarters are not singularly defined, the firm has maintained offices in multiple locations, including Dallas, Texas, Georgetown, Texas, San Mateo, California, and Brooklyn, New York. The Georgetown, TX office indicates the business was started and incorporated in December 2012. Public information suggests it is a smaller firm, with at least three attorneys noted in its Dallas office.

The firm's services focus on legal representation in intellectual property matters, including the assertion and monetization of patent rights for clients.

Farney Daniels, P.C.'s patent litigation posture is unique. The firm is recorded as a defendant in one administrative case and has no plaintiff cases in the tracked database. This single case, Federal Trade Commission v. MPHJ Technology Investments, LLC et al., identifies Farney Daniels, P.C. not as an operating company or a traditional Non-Practicing Entity (NPE), but as a law firm that represented an alleged "patent troll" (MPHJ Technology Investments, LLC).

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought an administrative complaint against Farney Daniels, P.C. and its client, MPHJ Technology Investments, LLC, in 2014, alleging deceptive practices and phony legal threats in patent demand letters sent to small businesses. The firm was accused of making misleading representations, including threatening imminent litigation without the intent to file suit, as part of a campaign to sell licenses for "scan-to-email" patents. This was a notable case as it marked the first time the FTC used its consumer protection authority against a patent assertion entity and its legal counsel for such practices. Farney Daniels, P.C. settled with the FTC, agreeing to cease deceptive representations in its patent assertion communications.