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TVS Motor allowed to produce Flame

CHENNAI: A Division Bench of the Madras High Court has given TVS Motor Company the go-ahead for manufacturing and marketing the 125-cc Flame, according to a release from the company.

The launch of Flame had triggered a legal between the company and Bajaj Auto, which had claimed that it had a registered patent involving the “twin-spark plug” technology. Hence, Bajaj Auto had alleged that the use of the technology in Flame by TVS Motor infringed its patented twin-spark plug technology.

The High Court order followed appeals by TVS Motor against the order of a single judge of the Madras High Court granting an injunction in favour of Bajaj Auto, restraining TVS Motor from manufacturing and selling its “TVS FLAME” motorcycle involving twin-spark plug technology.

The Court, in its order, observed that there was a difference between the three-valve configuration of TVS Motor and the two-valve configuration of Bajaj Auto.

It further observed that the combustion process of TVS Motor was not exclusively based on the twin-plug operation but was based on the three-valve configuration patented by AVL GMBH of Austria and licensed to TVS Motor.

Accordingly, it set aside the order of the single judge, and discontinued the injunction granted by him.

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