JLR wins court case against copycat

[blackrangie]

"As a result of its piracy, Jiangling must withdraw all LandWind X7s from the market and pay compensation to JLR. Keith Benjamin, JLR’s Global Legal Director, commented on the outcome, stating, “we welcome this decision of the Beijing court, which further strengthens our confidence in investing in China."

Land Rover wins court dispute over Chinese copycat | Auto Express (https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/land-rover/106394/land-rover-wins-court-dispute-over-chinese-copycat)

Wow! Nice win for JLR with current sales situation in China and new Evoque coming out.

[Homestar]

But will it get enforced outside the court room I wonder.... The Chinese legal system is very different to ours.

[87County]

The LandWind looks very similar to a RR (see photos in Wikipedia), especially the Land Wind example shown carrying Range Rover lettering.

A Range Rover lookalike at a 2/3 discount - no wonder they were popular :)

Still, the Beijing court decision is somewhat surprising.

[Homestar]

It’s only to placate JLR who want to move some production and manufacturing there, so they’re looking at the bigger picture. Still not sure much will actually happen though, but we’ll see.

[goingbush]

Is it too late for Simca to take LandRover to court for stealing the 1977 Matra Rancho design for the D1

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/1977_Simca_Matra_Rancho.jpg

[LRJim]

Is it too late for Simca to take LandRover to court for stealing the 1977 Matra Rancho design for the D1

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/1977_Simca_Matra_Rancho.jpgLooks like they stole the dash for the new pretender also 🤣[emoji38]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190323/d4c29c20be5c1a70f8cb79fcd0c3f50b.jpg

[Homestar]

Is it too late for Simca to take LandRover to court for stealing the 1977 Matra Rancho design for the D1

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/1977_Simca_Matra_Rancho.jpg

Holy ****, that’s ugly!!! 😆

[blackrangie]

But will it get enforced outside the court room I wonder.... The Chinese legal system is very different to ours.Its the first win for a case like this

[blackrangie]

Is it too late for Simca to take LandRover to court for stealing the 1977 Matra Rancho design for the D1

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/1977_Simca_Matra_Rancho.jpgMy eyes!

[blackrangie]

Looks like they stole the dash for the new pretender also [emoji1787][emoji38]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190323/d4c29c20be5c1a70f8cb79fcd0c3f50b.jpgAbout 0.1 percent of it yeah [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji849]

[Arapiles]

The decision is probably not unrelated to the current trade dispute between the US and China, in which Chinese company's abuse of intellectual property is a key issue for the Americans.

[Bigbjorn]

The decision is probably not unrelated to the current trade dispute between the US and China, in which Chinese company's abuse of intellectual property is a key issue for the Americans.

An engineering firm I knew spent $300,000 in Asian courts in the 1980's trying to protect their patents. Blatant disregard of the patent. Straight copies being sold. The result? Owner told me he might as well have spent the dough on beer, girls, and sports cars. White face round eyes don't get good results in Asian courts. After that he no longer patented his developments/inventions as patenting only put the idea out in public. Keep it to yourself, he said.

[Arapiles]

An engineering firm I knew spent $300,000 in Asian courts in the 1980's trying to protect their patents. Blatant disregard of the patent. Straight copies being sold. The result? Owner told me he might as well have spent the dough on beer, girls, and sports cars. White face round eyes don't get good results in Asian courts. After that he no longer patented his developments/inventions as patenting only put the idea out in public. Keep it to yourself, he said.

I think that it depends where you're talking about - it's not all countries in Asia, and China's long been notorious for not enforcing IP. Colleagues of mine based in Japan and Hong Kong spent a lot of their time enforcing IP in the region for foreign companies. And being Caucasian or European wasn't really the issue, since a lot of the IP being stolen, and which they were enforcing their clients' rights to, belonged to and was being stolen from Japanese companies.

Edit: as one example, there's some fairly egregious examples of theft of Japanese IP running around Melbourne at the moment ...

[Arapiles]

Edit: double post