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Archer's Attorneys Turn the Tables on Wisk in Legal Battle over eVTOL Aircraft Designs
Arguements made by Archer's legal team in an opposition court filing signal a change in tactics in its defense of charges of trade secrets theft made by rival Wisk in a case due to start in San Francisco on July 7.

It would seem that Archer’s legal team has been browsing The Art of War by ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. “Attack is the secret of defense,” he wrote back in the fifth century B.C., or, as it is commonly paraphrased in English, “Attack is the best form defense.”

Fast forward 2,500 years to 21st century Silicon Valley and attorneys representing the eVTOL aircraft developer against allegations of trade secrets theft by its rival Wisk this week tried to throw the charges back in the plaintiff’s face. In an opposition filing late on June 23 with the federal court for the Northern District of California, the Archer legal team essentially claims that Wisk applied to patent its design for a tilting rotor aircraft in January only after its chief engineer Geoff Long had made the company aware of Archer’s design.