Force India is set to appeal to High Court over a dispute with Aerolab/Team Lotus – Formula 1 news
Force India is set to appeal High Court ruling on a dispute over Aerolab and Team Lotus issue.
The team is going to appeal over a ruling on its dispute with Aerolab/Team Lotus, as Force India is looking to request Formula One Management to investigate the matter.
Marussia is another team looking to get things straight as it has written a letter to FIA over Team Lotus’ using the components which they feel breaches the Concorde Agreement. Force India are using the same point to raise concerns and planning a further
request for the governing body to step in.
The FIA needs to make it own decision and even if there is not a criminal case it has still been proved in a UK High Court.
Force India also added that they will submit their findings to the FIA. Team Lotus has not made any statements regarding the issue yet. The team received 25,000 Euros in damages which the team feels is insignificant relative to their actual loss. On the
other hand Force India was ordered to pay 850,000 Euros in unpaid fees to Aerolab.
Aerolab and Team Lotus had used some of the components of the team in their 2010 car design process and Force India owned the Intellectual Property rights to those components.
Deputy principal Robert Fernley told Autosport, “We will ask the judge for appeal on a number of things, and our legal team has not determined that [yet]. Of course damages will be one and some of the conduct will be the other.
He said, “What cannot be appealed is the decision - because that is admitted in affidavit and on oath. The guilt side stays; what we are saying is we want more damages. If we get it, or if we even get the appeal, is a completely different thing.”
Although last week Aerolab Chief Jean-Claude Migeot said that it is a very fine line between using your knowledge and using someone’s IP which he said was something they did not do.
It remains to be seen how the case unfolds as both parties look to get into the technicalities of the subject.
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