Family-Owned Aerospace Concern Alleges I.P. Theft

Wilson Aerospace LLC—a Boulder, Colorado-based, family-owned, machine-tool and metal-cutting concern—has brought a trade secret and copyright infringement lawsuit against aerospace industry titan Boeing. The suit, filed in Washington State’s Western District Court and brought by Friedman Rubin and additional firms on behalf of Wilson Aerospace, accuses Boeing of breaching its nondisclosure and proprietary information agreements with the Colorado company. The suit further contends Boeing attempted to utilize Wilson’s Intellectual Property (IP) to create counterfeit tools used on NASA projects the likes of the International Space Station (ISS). Wilson states Boeing mi

Fast Times in Lafayette

On 06 June 2023, the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI)—the applied research division of Lafayette, Indiana’s Purdue University—opened a new facility dedicated to enhancing the renowned engineering institution’s world-leading capabilities in the evaluation and testing of hypersonic platforms. Representatives of Purdue University, the U.S. federal government, and the global aerospace industry joined PARI leadership and staff in celebrating the opening of the Hypersonics and Applied Research Facility (HARF), a $41-million, 65,000-square-foot building housing cutting-edge gadgets the likes of the world’s only Mach 8 quiet wind tunnel and a hypersonic pulse (HYPULSE) reflect