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Tesla Motors can’t seem to keep itself out of the press, can it? The newest flare-up concerns rival Fisker and claims that the automaker has stolen trade secrets and copied design concepts. In a lawsuit filed Monday by Tesla, the carmaker accuses Henrik Fisker — whom the company had hired to design its WhiteStar sedan — of accepting the work to “gain access to confidential design information and trade secrets.” The company alleges that Fisker then used that knowledge to launch a competing vehicle, and believes Fisker has implemented its range-extended vehicle (or REV) technology in the recently introduced Karma. “I think it’s ironic that Fisker chose to name his car the Karma, when what he’s done is very bad karma,” said the company’s lawyer. Fisker wouldn’t comment on the case, then drove away silently when pressed.

source:engadget

Ultra Products, Inc. is trying its hand at that most glorious of corporate traditions: suing the pants off one’s competition. The maker of computer components is taking 22 — yes, twenty two! — of their competitors to court, claiming to have a patent for modular power supplies since November of 2006. Ultra says they sent several warnings to the companies about the violations and is asking for the legal maximum of three times the damages. The suit actually doesn’t accuse the companies of violating the patent, but of being an accomplice to end users who are violating the patent. Oh, and unless we’re missing something here, Hewlett Packard filed a modular power supply patent in 2000 — we certainly recall Screen Savers covering the devices way back in ‘99.

source:engadget