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Virgin Atlantic succeeds in flat-bed seat infringement appeal

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 9 2009

The Court of Appeal has upheld an appeal concerning a patent of Virgin Atlantic's seating system for flat-bed seats

The Court of Appeal upholds patent on aircraft seating systems

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 30 2009

In Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd v Premium Aircraft Interiors UK Ltd 2009 EWCA Civ 1062, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales upheld a patent relating to aircraft seating systems and given useful guidance on the expected level of knowledge of patent law of the notional skilled reader

Flat-bed airline seat

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 27 2009

In Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd v Premium Aircraft Interiors Group Ltd 2009 EWHC 26 (Pat), unregistered design rights and patent rights subsisting in Virgin Atlantic's flat-bed seat (the UCS) were at issue

Ryanair raising the drawbridge

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom
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  • September 11 2008

Ryanair has recently claimed victory in a Hamburg Regional Court dispute, preventing a third party website run by Vtours GmbH from "screen scraping" its website