An Italian company that makes equine bone and tissue products for use in dental, orthopedic and neurological surgery on humans claims it’s been defamed by a scientific journal publisher.

In a suit filed Dec. 30 in federal court in Trenton, Bioteck S.p.A., of Vicenza, Italy, says John Wiley & Sons, of Hoboken, N.J., “had a high degree of awareness” that an article contained information about one of its product lines that “was probably false.”