Legal disputes between eVTOL companies threaten to stall electric air taxi industry
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Andrew Hawkins
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The emerging electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi industry is being bogged down by legal disputes between key players. Companies like Joby Aviation, Archer Aviation, and Vertical Aerospace are engaged in heated courtroom battles over trade secrets, patents, and settlement enforcement. These legal wranglings threaten to slow the development and deployment of electric air taxis, coming less than two years after Archer supposedly settled a dispute with Boeing-backed Wisk Aero over alleged theft of trade secrets — only for the case to be reopened when Wisk sought court enforcement of the settlement terms.
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· 2 pulledThese tiffs are taking place less than two years after Archer supposedly settled its dispute with Boeing-backed Wisk Aero over the alleged theft of trade secrets — only to see the case reopened when Wisk asked the court for help enforcing the terms of the settlement.
These heated courtroom battles are unfolding
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