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A kiwi company that manufactures amphibious boats won a major lawsuit against a former employee who stole their design.
The High Court ruled that the SeaLegs design was copied with the help of former staff – and an injunction means its competitor can no longer make the same boats here.
Boats can drive on land, that is to say when you get to the water's edge, you can enter without getting your feet wet.
Orion copied the SeaLegs design and can no longer manufacture or sell his amphibious system in New Zealand.
The inventor Maurice Bryham said: "Everyone says that the result is excellent and we can do it now."
ends Sealegs' two-year legal battle, and staff can celebrate tonight knowing their jobs are safe.
The Sealegs 'lawyer, Brian Henry, said: "It' s about jobs because a competitor who did not need to develop his capital can reduce its prices, and it's over. "
By two people, the staff here knows well – they were colleagues.
"They squirted them … They were building boats for sailors while hiding the fact that they were building this competitor," Henry said.
Orion was not ready to comment today.
In court, Orion argued that this conception was not unique. But the High Court ruled that his product had exactly the same combination of characteristics – and they had copied it.
SeaLegs says that she has spent more than a million dollars in the case, and that they will probably recover some of it are decided.
But most of all, they are happy to go back to the design without stress.
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