Health your username May 4, 2021 On Monday in the Northern District of California, an individual filed a class-action complaint against Align Technology Inc. over allegations that the company operated an anticompetitive scheme to hold a monopoly on the dental aligner market with its Invisalign and iTero products. Lead plaintiff Misty Snow alleged that Align implemented its scheme for fear of competition entering the market once its intellectual property — constituted by hundreds of patents — expired. Using the intertwined nature of aligners and “hand-held digital intraoral scanners,” Align was able to foreclose the market for aligners, keeping competitors out and prices high, the plaintiff claimed.