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Jeep drives Thar to court in Australia
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Jeep drives Thar to court in Australia
Nandini Sen Gupta / TNN / May 12, 2021, 04:00 IST
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Chennai: Fiat Chrysler (owner of Jeep) and Mahindra & Mahindra are locked in a dispute over the design of the latter’s Thar SUV in Australia.
Mahindra’s teaser ad for its Thar in that market appears to be the trigger with Fiat Chrysler demanding that Mahindra should not launch the Thar in Australia and should give a 90-day notice if it intends to do so. The two parties have since moved the Federal Court of Australia. The dispute is over Thar’s design which Fiat claims infringes the Jeep Wrangler s design. An M&M spokesperson said, “We have filed our reply in the proceeding commenced by FCA against us. There are no plans to launch the current model of the Thar in Australia. We would provide adequate notice to FCA, as is requested, if we were to launch any future model of the Thar in Australia. The Cour
Nandini Sen Gupta | TNN | May 12, 2021, 11:16 IST
CHENNAI: Fiat Chrysler (owner of Jeep) and Mahindra & Mahindra are locked in a dispute over the design of the latter’s Thar SUV in Australia.
Mahindra’s teaser ad for its Thar in that market appears to be the trigger with Fiat Chrysler demanding that Mahindra should not launch the Thar in Australia and should give a 90-day notice if it intends to do so.
The two parties have since moved the Federal Court of Australia. The dispute is over Thar’s design which Fiat claims infringes the Jeep Wrangler s design.
An M&M spokesperson said, “We have filed our reply in the proceeding commenced by FCA against us. There are no plans to launch the current model of the Thar in Australia. We would provide adequate notice to FCA, as is requested, if we were to launch any future model of the Thar in Australia. The Court has listed the case to be heard on May 20, 2021. We have no immediate plans for the all-new Thar to be launched in ot
According to Mahindra, the ITC determined the “redesigned 2021 Roxor does not infringe on the ‘Jeep Trade Dress’ claimed by FCA.” The company went on to say this follows earlier rulings which found “Mahindra did not infringe on any of FCA’s registered trademarks.”
While Mahindra has yet to reveal the 2021 Roxor, the legal battle between the two companies came to a head last year when Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot determined the Roxor infringed on Jeep’s Trade Dress.
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Among the styling features that were key to the case were exterior hood latches, “door cutouts above the bottom portion of the side body panels,” a “boxy body shape with flat appearing vertical side and rear body panels ending at about the same height as the hood.”