No Bollinger For Munro

Scotland-based Munro Vehicles has found itself in legal action in the USA over alleged infringement of a group of design patents owned by Bollinger Motors of Detroit, Michigan. Both Munro and Bollinger are start-up electric vehicle manufacturers offering rugged off-road trucks for a variety of hard wearing applications. Bollinger alleges that one of its former contract designers, Ross Compton, who went on to become head designer for Munro, took confidential information from the design of the Bollinger B1 and B2 which led to the design of the Munro MK1.

Should Bollinger be able to prove misuse of confidential material by Compton, this would put Munro in a very difficult legal position. However, proving such misuse can be hard to achieve, as this requires extensive record-checking through the document discovery process. Nevertheless, because Bollinger's accusation relies on two US design patents (USD836027 & USD836487) it would still be possible for Bollinger to stop