Jaguar Land Rover’s chances of winning a lawsuit against a Chinese carmaker over patent infringement have been undermined by the country’s decision to cancel both companies’ patents.
This month, JLR told Reuters it had begun legal action in Beijing against Jiangling Motors over its Landwind X7 SUV, which the UK-based company claims infringes the patented external designs of its Range Rover Evoque.
But the Chinese patents for both models’ exterior designs were designated “invalid” by the State Intellectual Property Office at the beginning of this month, according to notices on the office’s website, on grounds that the Evoque design was put on public display a year before the patent was filed.
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