Sarah FackrellI'll add, just for fun: Under U.S. law, the Lotus could theoretically be relevant to the question of design patent infringement at Goddess step 2.
But that would require someone to actually make the underwater vehicle. See #CurviSil.
And for that vehicle to not be "plainly dissimilar." See Goddess
The underwater vehicle illustration shows a car that is plainly dissimilar, however. So any infringement claim (again, in a world without a CurviSil problem) would fail--as a matter of law--at Goddess step one.
See generally: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
See also:
The Counterfeit Sham - Harvard...