From the Louis Vuitton website via Craig Leweck's Scuttlebutt:

On the subject of intellectual property--that is, the availability of prior knowledge and plans--to me as a yacht designer, long retired, these rights seem to have been misunderstood and misinterpreted. When I was active it was made clear to the client that the design was the property of the designer and the owner had the right to use it. As the designer's property, the plans and calculations were part of his stock in trade, and he carried them along and developed them from project to project. The client had the right to expect the designer to reflect all his experience in his latest work.

Certainly, in no profession can experience or the details which it has been built be wiped from memory. I, with most professionals, kept notes in a book. Today, for most of us, the computer is an extension of the mind as well as a hi-capacity notebook.

To me the penalty against OneWorld seems unjustified and unfair. Perhaps, to respect the eminent judges, we can suggest that they were bound by poor wording of the protocol. -http://www.louisvuittoncup.yahoo.com/story1375.html.