Finally. The name battle between Proton subsidiary Group Lotus and Tony Fernandes’ Team Lotus will be settled after a long wrangle. The British High Court decision on the Lotus naming row will be revealed Friday afternoon (UK time) by Justice Peter Smith in London, as announced by the High Court of Justice Chancery Division.
The case was first heard back in March, but Judge Smith has spent the past months deliberating on his verdict, besides taking a break during the Easter holidays. The Group Lotus PLC & anr v 1Malaysia Racing Team SDN BHD & ors Pt Hd case verdict will rule whether Team Lotus will be allowed to use the Lotus name in Formula 1, and also whether the team (then called Lotus Racing) was in breach of the original licensing deal it had with carmaker Lotus.
While the case was in court, Team Lotus went out to purchase Caterham, the maker of the iconic Seven, which started life as a Lotus. Considered by many as a “back up plan” should Tony and friends lose in the court case, they’ve even found a potential title sponsor and registered domain names for the rebranded team. Read all about that here and here.
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Probably the outcome will be that Team Lotus will not be able to use Lotus name anymore but at the same time, Group Lotus have neither the access to the name “Team Lotus”, unless they buy it from whoever that owns it now. Best case scenario, let the dead be dead..
yeah.. just consider a fresh brand reboot lor.. no need claim heritage here, claim heritage there.. sheesh…
whether group lotus has any rights to team lotus is not the issue. That’s pretty cut n dry. They don’t! The issue is whether tony has those rights or not.
I seriously believe that Tony’s Lotus team can earn much much more return of investment should the team close shop, and then use whatever money the team has left to invest in broadcasting F1 LIVE on national TV channel for free.
Obviously the sponsors who advertise through this channel will get more value of investment than the current situation where I hardly notice the existence of backmarkers.
why should tony do bernie’s job? Race broadcast is the series organiser’s responsibility not teams’ responsibility
Jeng Jeng Jeng!!!!
This particular battle is ridiculous, fighting over name….exactly same as Ford vs Ferrari regarding the F150 and F-150….as if people will start to get confuse over which is truck and which is F1 car….duh…
the F150 case Ford certainly the childish one. BMW never sue Ferrari for having F10 car for 2010 F1 season. why???
becoz BMW is a grown-up, Ford is retarded…
this case is the same but not similar..
haiyo.. you don’t know about ford n ferrari past history, they been a rivalry since 1963 la geng.. and until now they still don’t like each other that much…
check it out at :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_GT40
bro.. BMW is also in F1 laa.. although during F10 era they don’t compete anymore..
it’s just two very different world.. childish is childish…
Call it “Team Teratai” then.
TF, just settle down and use ‘Team Caterham’ instead.
News just out. Tony wins! Caterham Racing never had a nice ring to it anyway. Yay to Lotus Racing.
News just out. Tony wins! Well, Caterham Racing never had a nice ring to it, so yay to Lotus Racing!
Wow, very efficient court system comparing to our Kangaroo court…..
Quit being a retard and politicising things. Stick to the topic.
why they are efficient? coz they are focus and stick to topics. malaysians everything want to politicize.
Hey, there are more pertinent issues in bolehland than this pointless tussle for teratai.
http://youtu.be/I9a7Yaa0hRs
TONY SHOULD JUST USE TEAM CATERHAM…….you own the brand….
why not just call it “black lotus” and “green lotus”.. LOL… “black lotus” reminds me of something though…haha.. the real lotus only will be with Senna’s initial.. and that’s a legendary comeback..
just my thoughts ..