Kirby Sueing LPE, ILCA, ISAF, Rastegar

The fact of the matter is that the boats were produced to the construction manual using the relevant tooling and have ISAF issued plaques saying they are a Laser.... What will BKI do...sue everyone who has one and make them sign an undertaking saying they will not sell them and call them a Laser?

I am sure you have all noticed that there is no mention of referring the to boat as a Laser but as a Kirby Sailboat with the builder being required to hold the Laser trademark in the required region....

More evidence that the class is likely to split but all 'grandfathered' hulls being deemed as class legal for the 'new' class. Where this will leave ILCA and the classes Olympic status is anyones guess. In the grand scheme of things does anyone really care right now? Parts are available, the only thing not readily available are new sails but that is more likely down to the new design being imminent and the manufacturers not wanting to get stuck with a large stock of obsolete sails. That and I am told Hyde have washed their hands of the whole matter at the moment....

They satisfy ILCAs requirements though.....

Plus it is the responsibility of the individual to ensure their boat is class legal not the CA...

In my view BKI/Global Sailing (the people whom BK sold the rights to) should have terminated the builder agreements a long time ago and sorted this out through the courts then. Now we are 2 years down the line and this is only just happening. Rastegar has further muddied the waters by transferring the trademark in breach of the builder agreement (this is probably more what this case is about).

If BKI can get control of the trademarks then new builders can be appointed and the class can move forward. I honestly don't think he will ever see the royalties (and let us not forget that he was not the rights holder for a significant period of time during this whole sorry affair).

That and his lovely lawyers made threats to sue various people on another forum over comments they were making. They soon backed down when these people pointed out they were not in the states so they could go whistle......

As for Hyde, well if they were supplying a newco. with different shareholders with a new sail, it would be again be daft to hold grievance over oldco.'s payment history... trade out the losses with a bigger slice of that juicy, sweet and succulent profit margin on the official laser sail.