Jaguar Land Rover has won a landmark case against Jiangling Motor Corporation for producing a copy of the Range Rover Evoque in the Landwind X7, which has been deemed to have ‘led to widespread consumer confusion’ due to the similarity between the two vehicles.
The Beijing Chaoyang District Court decreed that the Evoque has five unique features that were copied directly in the Landwind X7, and has determined that all sales, manufacturing and marketing of the Landwind X7 must stop immediately, and that Jaguar Land Rover be paid compensation.
The Chinese copy of the Evoque had already courted complaints as far back as 2015 from the British group of brands, and formally sued the company a year after that.
“We welcome this decision of the Beijing Court, which further strengthens our confidence in investing in China and in the fairness of intellectual property adjudication in the Chinese courts. This ruling is a clear sign of the law being implemented appropriately to protect consumers and uphold their rights so that they are not confused or misled, whilst protecting business investment in design and innovation,” said Jaguar Land Rover head of legal, Keith Benjamin.
The current, second-generation Range Rover Evoque was launched last November, succeeding the first-generation model which made its debut in 2011. The latest iteration will make its China debut at the Shanghai Motor Show this April.
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China is becoming more civilised, even starting to recognise copyrights of design. I hope Geely will follow and sue Yema for their Boyue/X70 clone. Others will clone good things like Boyue/X70, but this is too much.
Are u sure they are copy proton x70 but actually is a Geely boyue? U think is proton have right to file a complaint of it or actually is Geely should do it.. Dun confuse ppl
proton x70 design indeed look way nicer, then the Range rover evoque it benchmarked on.
Boyue & X70 is twins. Nowhere did I say P1 shud file complaint, please read properly b4 u bash again.
You need to fix your eyes.
Kunta dupe memang so-high.
Civilized and China don’t go together…
You’re speaking of the people that has 5,000 years of civilisation.
China is just a copycat. They should stop copying designs. Good this ruling puts down good precedent to follow
Your Perodua is no different.
john say BMW copy proton
Haha customers could not have been misled. First giveaway is the bloody price difference!
Excellent news!!!
After a few eternal years later, congratulations jaguar land rover win patent against land wind.
Unfortunately poor man cant rebadge it into land rover and be a poser anymore.
Copycat country
This is all in China Gov plan. They allowed all their companies to copy whatever they can copy. So that they can learn from whatever they copied then share back all the knowledge to the countries. Until recently where the Gov think China is strong enough and ready to come out with own great stuff (like Geely), then they slowly start to enforce their copyright and patent rules to show the world that China is no longer a copy&paste country. Slowly, the world will start to accept and admire all their products and become even stronger. Very well plan…very well.
Isn’t that what Japan had done? How else did they became successful in such a short time? :rolleyes:
If you take a look at the Japanese automotive history, they took the same approach of copy and paste from American and European cars. Only that the Japs did it much earlier, a few years after WW2 ended.