Archer Hits Back at Wisk with Counterclaims of Interference and Unfair Competition
Archer has asked a U.S. District Court to dismiss Wisk's intellectual property lawsuit, arguing that Wisk's eVTOL aircraft is based on a patented design.
Archer Aviation today asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by rival eVTOL aircraft developer Wisk Aero for alleged theft of trade secrets and patent infringement. Archer’s lawyers argue that the suit is “entirely baseless.”
As part of the company’s formal answer to the case filed against it in early April, Archer firmly refutes Wisk’s allegations and insists that it was working on the design before any former Wisk employees joined the company. Wisk has alleged that a former employee, Jing Xue, stole thousands of files containing trade secrets before leaving to join Archer in January 2020.
