Nothing to hang on to ...

Earlier this week Class 99 announced that a decision was awaited in the appeal by Virgin Atlantic v Premium Aircraft Interiors against the trial judge's dismissal of its patent and design infringement claims in respect of its Upper Class passenger seats. Since design issues took up such a great space in the original trial, it was expected that we would all benefit from some further explication of design law by the Court of Appeal for England and Wales. Sadly -- for us, that is, and not for Virgin as successful appellants -- today's appeal decision was on the patent infringement/validity issues only, so there was nothing on designs after all.