Supacat wrote:

spudfan wrote:

Earlier someone mentioned the possibility of a legal challenge from JLR regarding the close similarity between the Grenadier and the old Defender. Recently JEEP won a case in India against MAHINDRA who have to stop manufacturing one of their models. It is ironic that in the advertising for the model, MAHINDRA used to comment on how their model echoed the styling of the classic JEEP.As well as having to stop producing the model I presume there was a financial penalty as well.
I would say that there would be a lot of political pressure on JLR not to pursue a legal challenge given the amount of potential jobs that could be at stake. Besides as JLR had publically dumped the Defender probably would not do them any favours.

Jeep "won" their case in the USA, using the 1930 Tariff Act and as far as I can see it did so as a "domestic industry". So it does not look like it would set any precedent applicable to JLR to go after Ineos.

https://www.defender2.net/forum/post836852...dra#836852

The claim from Jeep that Mahindra had infringed it's U.S. Trademark Registration was actually rejected. What was upheld was infringement of trade dress protection.

From Wiki:
"Trade dress protection is intended to protect consumers from packaging or appearance of products that are designed to imitate other products; to prevent a consumer from buying one product under the belief that it is another."

Easy to do perhaps when you pick up a packet of Asda's chocolate orange sponge biscuits but surely nigh on impossible when purchasing a vehicle?