{"id":2373,"date":"2018-05-23T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2018-05-23T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:44:03","slug":"airbus-settles-sharklet-legal-fight-with-aviation-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Settles Sharklet Legal Fight With Aviation Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content__segment combx\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Seattle&#8217;s Aviation Partners Inc. has settled a long-running patent infringement dispute with Airbus, which it accused of &#8220;willfully and maliciously misappropriating&#8221; its patented blended winglet technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The fight began with dueling lawsuits in 2011 and 2012 and ended in recent months after arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce in London, two aerospace industry sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Airbus ended up making a large payment to Aviation Partners (API), according to the sources, who were familiar with the matter but asked not to be named to protect business relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/news\/2018\/05\/23\/airbus-aviation-partners-sharklet-wingtip-dispute.html?ana=yahoo&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Airbus Settles Sharklet Legal Fight<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2374\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sharklets-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sharklets-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sharklets-768x274.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sharklets-1024x365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sharklets.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle&#8217;s Aviation Partners Inc. has settled a long-running patent infringement dispute with Airbus, which it accused of &#8220;willfully and maliciously misappropriating&#8221; its patented blended winglet technology. The fight began with dueling lawsuits in 2011 and 2012 and ended in recent months after arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce in London, two aerospace industry sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,89,799,868],"tags":[45,376,269,47,1094,160,1091,41,1096,1090,247,1097,1098,1093,1092,1095],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-transportation-news","tag-45","tag-376","tag-269","tag-airbus","tag-api","tag-aviation","tag-blended","tag-boeing","tag-fins","tag-partners","tag-seattle","tag-sharklet","tag-sharklets","tag-technology","tag-winglet","tag-wingtip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}