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Jaguar Land Rover complaint against Chinese automaker on Evoque source imitator.
BEIJING Jaguar Land Rover sues Chinese automaker Jiangling Motors for copying allegedly Rover British firm Evoque, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said - a rare move by a foreign automaker to fight against copycats in the largest automobile market of the world.
A spokesman for JLR, owned by Tata Motors of India, said in brief comments emailed to Reuters that the court in the Chaoyang District of Beijing is served Jiangling with newly deposited shares around the right copyright and unfair competition He declined to elaborate.
The suit concerns the sport utility vehicle Landwind X7 Jiangling copy the design of the Evoque, the first model of China is JLR's on sale last year, said the person with knowledge of the legal proceedings, which are not allowed to talk to the media and did not want to be named.
Despite widespread and often blatant copying, global automakers gift usually does take legal action in China because they believe that the chances of winning against local businesses are also low, a lawsuit can be bad for the brand if the Chinese public believes that a foreign company is bullying domestic competitors.
If JLR is successful, it could encourage other automakers to also take legal action, said Chen Jihong, a Beijing-based lawyer at the firm Zhong Lun Law, accelerating the transition to a more stringent application intellectual property rights.
Landwind has unveiled a new version of its X7 SUV in November 2014, drawing criticism for its striking resemblance to the Evoque, an imported version that was already on sale in China.
Both SUVs have a similar shape, with the roof and the windows tapers from front to back, and near identical taillights lines and characters on the side paneling The X7 calender is slightly more rounded than the edges of the hard 'evoke.
The slight differences between the two cars can be virtually eliminated widely using kits available that allow a Range Rover grille, logo and badges Rover to put on a X7 kits on the cost of a business website Alibaba Taobao about 128 yuan 19 43.
X7 costs about one-third the price of a Evoque, and is far behind in technology and performance, said Yale Zhang, managing director of Automotive Foresight.
The spokesman said JLR Jiangling has been banned by an order to sell the X7 in Brazil, where it has recently appointed an importer.
Moreover, the same source with knowledge of the newly filed suit said the two automakers also argue that Landwind can and can t do an update of the X7 design.
JLR sales fell by a fifth in China in January-March last year - when it launched its China-made Evoque - after rising 36 percent in the same period in 2014 In the same period this year, JLR sales in China rose 19 percent.
It took Honda Motor, for example, 12 years to win a case against China in a little-known local automaker - for a copy of his best-selling SUV CR-V - according to a report from the official Xinhua news agency, confirmed by a Honda spokesman.
Even then, the Japanese firm has received only 16 million yuan in February 43 million in compensation he requested 300 million yuan.
This story corrects to make clear X7 sale in Brazil prevented by injunction, disagree, paragraph 11.
Reportage by Jake spring, with additional reporting by Michael Martina and Beijing newsroom; Edited by Ian Geoghegan.
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