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2025: EU sanctions imposed

In May 2025, the EU imposed sanctions against Russian drone manufacturers. Read more here

2021: Claim from Aerocso

As it became known on June 10, 2021, the rights to the design of the Russian drone first began to be challenged in court. The company "Aerocso" has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles "Unmanned Systems" and demands to ban the use of its technology without paying for a license.

This proceeding was reported by Vedomosti with reference to the file cabinet of arbitration cases. The lawsuit was sent to the Arbitration Court of Udmurtia. The publication, referring to the materials of the statement of claim, writes that the plaintiff wants to achieve a ban on the production, advertising and sale of an unmanned tiltrotor Supercam SX200H, developed by Unmanned Systems.

For the first time, the rights to the design of a Russian drone began to be challenged in court

The tiltrotor, like a helicopter, is able to take off vertically, then the engine nacelles with screws and engines turn 90 degrees, and the car flies horizontally like an airplane: the wings provide lift. The patented "Aerocso" device differs in that each engine group contains two engines, is located with the ability to turn at the end of each of the four wings and is made in the form of a motor nacelle with pulling and pushing screws, the lawsuit says.^[1]

Ilya Zharsky, managing partner of the Veta expert group, in a conversation with the newspaper, called the conclusion of the examination conducted by patent attorneys at the request of Aerocso correct. However, according to the lawyer, the very description of the useful model of the patented device raises questions, it contains very general characteristics, most of which - somehow: the presence of a fuselage, the ability to turn engines at the end of each wing - describes the design of the tiltrotor as a class of aircraft. " The presence of pairwise arranged engines and four wings is not something exceptional, characteristic only of the model, the rights to which belong to the plaintiff, he added lawyer.

In his opinion, the chances of Aerocso to satisfy the requirements are quite high, since formally signs of using the plaintiff's patent in the Supercam model are SX200H seen.

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