Sports equipment makers want to patent their golf club and ski designs, and big-league teams want to maintain control over their names and logos. But when players take to the field, IP isn’t going to decide who emerges victorious. Or is it?
In mid-September the World Motor Sport Council of the Federation Internationale d’Automobile (FIA), the governing body of Formula One racing, slapped top British team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes with a whopping $100 million fine for possessing a 780-page dossier apparently purloined from rival Italian team Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro. The Parisbased council said that other evidence made it clear that McLaren had obtained some “sporting advantage” from the dossier, which included “not only highly sensitive technical information but also secret information regarding Ferrari’s sporting strategy.”
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