SINGAPORE'S Ang Sin Liu Shipyard has won a court case that threatened to scuttle delivery of two barges to an Indonesian customer, according to the Business Times.
The yard has obtained a court order to set aside an injunction served by Straits Engineers Contracting (SEC) earlier this month.
Tug and barge owner SEC had claimed that Ang Sin Liu infringed its copyright on a drawing of hopper barges.
The company secured an interlocutory injunction and an Anton Pillar order from a judicial commissioner on December 23.
The Anton Pillar order gave SEC the right to enter Ang Sin Liu's premises and take documents and items related to the building of the barges.
SEC's two-pronged legal thrust forced the shipyard to stop work on the barge for three weeks.
But in the High Court, Justice Warren Khoo ordered SEC to return the documents and items it seized and to pay Ang Sin Liu costs, damages and interest.
