Judge rules in bondage row
A designer and an engineer have been embroiled in a legal row about design rights to a frame and sling for use during sex involving bondage.
Designer Uwe Haiss and engineer Derek Ball aired their dispute before a judge in a patents court in London.
Mr Haiss claimed that Mr Ball, a mechanical engineer who owns a firm which produces metalwork for the fetish industry, breached registered design rights. Mr Ball disputed the claim.
Recorder Amanda Michaels concluded that Mr Ball infringed a design right to the frame but not to the sling.