Specialized Take Volagi To Court Over Liscio Bike

Robert Choi guilty of breach of contract. Specialized sues Volagi over Liscio road bike.

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While they worked in different departments they became friends and eventually quit Specialized to pursue the American Dream of starting their own.

Specialized take volagi to court over liscio bike. A lawsuit filed by Specialized Bicycle Components last year alleging. We urge you to support and restore fairness and competition for our nations small businesses. Archived from the original on 2017-06-25.

Volagi Cycles was an American-based company that manufactured bicycles and related components. Archived from the original on 2015-01-05. In 2011 Volagis single product the Liscio.

Specialized Bicycle Components Inc colloquially known as and stylized as SPECIALIZED is an American company that designs manufactures and markets bicycles bicycle components and related products under the brand name Specialized as well as the premium and professional oriented S-works. Anyway heres the Volagi Liscio with their famed disc. Volagi volajee is derived from Latin meaning The Will to Go.

Robert Choi and. On this point Specialized lost. When the worlds third-largest bike company threatened to sue a small bike shop over a trademark the cycling community went ballistic calling Specialized a bully and a bunch of idiots.

Barley Forsman not guilty. Volagi founder Robert Choi says their Liscio is a bike designed for the rest of us and hes right. Zinn Lennard 2012-01-13.

Founded in 2010 by two bicycle industry designers Robert Choi and Barley Forsman Volagi had six international distributors as well as eighty bicycle dealers in the United States. Which brings up the bad news for Volagi. The legal defence against Specialized who themselves are thought to have have spent 15M in mounting their claim cost over 400000 leading to speculation among industry pundits whether Volagi might now reclaim their legal expenses based on the the Intellectual Property element of the case as well as.

Specialized Bicycle Components is suing Volagi Cycles founders alleging they stole the Liscios design while still employed at Specialized. They dont offer a single bike with rim brakes. Out-of-court settlement with Specialized.

Fretz Caley 2012-01-03. If you ask me thats like them subtly trying to tell Specialized that what they did was unfair. Specialized takes Volagi to court over Liscio bike After more than a week in court plaintiff Specialized was left with just one charge against Volagi breach of.

Specialized sues Volagi over Liscio road bike. Specialized is taking start-up bike company Volagi to court claiming that the brands co-founders stole trade secrets from them according to Silicon Valley website Mercury News. The Liscio was not designed on Specialized company time nor does it violate any of Specialized patents.

The jury ultimately ruled in favour of Specialized but only ordered Volagi to pay Specialized US1 in damages. To throw some of the broader details into the mix the Volagi Liscio is a nicely made carbon road bike. One drawing of the Liscio longbow design from the companys patent application.

Volagi Bikes are all about skinny tires and disc brakes. Trade secrets to create the Liscio road bike has gone to court. The jury will have to sort out the competing accounts between Specialized founded in Morgan Hill in the mid-1970s and now a company that sells hundreds of thousands of bikes each year and Cotati-based Volagi which to date has sold about 175 bikes according to its founders.

Retrieved 18 April 2014. Volagi Cycles founders Robert Choi and Barley Forsman both used to work at Specialized Bicycles. Volagi owes Specialized 1.

Wanted flex Liscio translates as smooth in Italian and the name is wholly appropriate. Specialized brought suit to Volagis co-founders in October 2010 soon after the duo left Specialized to found their own carbon bicycle company. The Morgan Hill California-based company was founded in 1974 by Mike Sinyard.

The lawsuit brought by Specialized against Volagi is over and the tiny startup company is obliged to pay Specialized one dollar in damages for breach of employment contract by Volagi. A court case between Specialized one of the biggest bike brands in the world and Volagi a small Californian startup formed by two former employees of the larger company was resolved yesterday with what the Mercury News described as a mixed verdict. Where other manufacturers are beavering away trying to make their bikes stiffer Volagi has unrepentantly pursued vertical flex.

Specializeds contention was that Volagis decision to join the seatstays to the top tube rather than at the more typical location of the seat cluster was an idea theyd lifted from the Roubaix. Specialized are taking start-up bike company Volagi to court claiming that the brands co-founders stole trade secrets from them according to Silicon Valley website Mercury News. This isnt just a battle for Volagi this is a fight for free market enterprise.

And crucially it was able to continue with the Liscios production. After more than a week in court plaintiff Specialized was left with just one charge against Volagi breach of contract by the two former employees. Get used to it.

Just before noon local time the verdicts came in.

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