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Two engineers held for patent violation

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, MARCH 13. Two engineers were arrested by the Central Crime Branch police today on charges of illegally attempting to patent the prototype of a new tractor model, developed by the Chennai-based Tractor And Farm Equipment (TAFE) Company.

According to police, TAFE had developed the new tractor model a few years ago with the help of a U.K.-based design organisation.

The company sent R. Raja, an engineer, who was then with the TAFE, to London. Raja subsequently resigned and started his own company.

The company kept production of the new model in abeyance since it felt the production cost had escalated.

Using the prototype of the TAFE model, Raja along with his associate, Manoj Kumar Mittal, allegedly attempted to submit a new design with the Central Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute in Budni, Madhya Pradesh.

When TAFE came to know of it, its senior manager, legal services, R. Srinivasan, filed a police complaint, resulting in the arrest of the two.

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