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Tata Motor’s-owned Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission on Thursday, 19 November, to block imports of Porsche, Lamborghini, Audi and Volkswagen sport utility vehicles (SUV).

The complaints state that the car manufactures are using Jaguar’s patented Terrain Response Technology without permission.

https://www.thequint.com/news/busine...e-audi-vw-suvs

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[CEF_Beasts]

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has filed a complaint to the US International Trade Commission to ban imports of Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche and Volkswagen SUVs. According to reports, the Tata-owned luxury carmaker claims that VW Group SUVs such as the Audi Q8, Q7, Q5, A6 Allroad and E-tron, the Lamborghini Urus, Porsche Cayenne and the Volkswagen Tiguan all use JLR’s patented Terrain Response system without permission.

In the filing, JLR’s lawyer, Matthew Moore, said, “JLR seeks to protect itself and its United States operations from companies that have injected infringing products into the US market that incorporate, without any license from JLR, technology developed by JLR and protected by its patent.”

A spokesperson for the Volkswagen Group said, "The Volkswagen Group is examining the action in order to determine further steps. We will not comment any further regarding an ongoing proceeding at this stage."

Introduced in 2005, Terrain Response is JLR’s off-road driving management system, which allows cars such as the Land Rover Discovery, on whose Series 3 guise the technology made its debut, to adjust their driving settings for different conditions.

The current offering features five modes- sand, rock crawl, grass-gravel-snow, mud-ruts and general. When driving on sand, for example, Terrain Response increases engine and gearbox response and locks the centre differential to “maintain momentum on soft surfaces”.

The US filing is one of several recent legal moves from JLR as it seeks to protect its intellectual property, particularly on its flagship designs such as its Defender.

I didn’t get why only is JLR targeting the VW group with this! Doesn’t Ford use terrain management system in their cars as well?

https://www.autocarindia.com/car-new...-the-us-419277

[Venkatesh]

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) said it is opening an investigation into whether Volkswagen Group infringed on the off-road technology patents held by Jaguar Land Rover. The USITC noted in the release that its opening of an investigation does not mean that the USITC has made any decision on the merits of the case.

2017 Bentley Bentayga Driving Mode Dial



Terrain Response on 2017 Land Rover Discovery

Bentley didn't believe it had violated any patent, and it didn't intend to pay royalties for what it saw as a commonplace feature in a luxury SUV. That sparked Land Rover to rewrite its original U.S. patent to detail, with more exacting clarity, the features it charged Bentley with copying

The patent at issue in this case does not purport to solve a technological problem," Bentley said in the filing. "Instead, its claims are directed to the concept of controlling a vehicle on the basis of a driver-selected driving surface—an abstract idea that is not patentable under Supreme Court precedent

Bentley, in one petition, said Land Rover was simply "reciting new limitations related to the conventional use of common automotive subsystems.

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[Venkatesh]

Jaguar Land Rover settles patent fight with Volkswagen over SUV tech

JLR and VW came up with a settlement, though details of the settlement are yet to be made public at this point. The settlement apparently came just in time as JLR was about to begin a trial a week after.

Jaguar had “potential to win over $200 million a year in licensing income from its patent-infringement lawsuit against Porsche, Audi, Lamborghini and Volkswagen

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