Two Locked In A Legal Struggle Over Blended Winglet Design
When Joe Clark and his business associates founded Aviation
Partners, Inc. (API) in 1991, he had no idea that he'd be
locked in a legal battle with European government-backed aviation
giant Airbus. Now Aviation Partners has filed a response to the
pre-emptive lawsuit Airbus recently filed that seeks to invalidate
Aviation Partners' patent (number 5,348,253).