NEWS: TVS Motor Company is not infringing on patent granted to Bajaj

/India PRwire/ - Sections of the press have carried news reports based on the press release made by M/s Bajaj Auto Limited titled ‘Bajaj Granted "ExhausTEC" Patent’ dated 2nd April 2009.

Our comments and clarifications are as follows:

1. TVS Motor Company is not infringing on the said patent and the grant of this patent has no impact on our business as none of the products of the company utilise the saidtechnology.

2. The patent granted to Bajaj Auto is for "ExhausTEC", which is a chamber fitted on the exhaust pipe. It has nothing to do with "DTSi twin spark" technology. They are twoseparate patents and are not linked to each other.

3. DTSi technology involves the use of two spark plugs in the cylinder head, which is part of the engine.

4. "ExhausTEC" is not fitted on the engine but is fitted in the exhaust pipe and refers to an additional chamber (box) that is created in the exhaust pipe through which exhaustgases are dispensed.

5. Bajaj Auto filed the "ExhausTEC" patent in 2004 and the subsequent patent application was published in the Indian Patent Gazette in 2007. TVS Motor opposed this in the IndianPatent Office. It was only because of TVS Motors opposition that Bajaj had to amend their claims and the claim as amended was subsequently granted to Bajaj.

We hereby firmly state that some persons in the media seem to have been misled into believing that a correlation exists between "DTSi twin spark" technology and "ExhausTEC". In reality they are two independent technologies with separate patents and these technologies are not used by TVS Motor Company in any of its products.


Cecil Dewars
Vice President – Corporate Communications
Source: Press release distribution via India PRwire



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Bajaj has noting to but to fight.
First fight for twinspark and then for exhustec .
And for wat bajaj will fight i think for stickers on bike or something else
I don;t understand wat Bajaj want and what they are doing.
Their sale have gone very down and they have slipped from number-2 to number-4.
adn doing nothing just fighting.

Mr. InsaneBiker
wat are trying to prove that you are very cool at insulting people .
If somebody said you something why don't you take it healthily instead to of using insane statements

who is insulting whom.
and
sayan are you in your senses this is not the pulsar thread you are looking for
it is thread for "Exhaustec Patent to Bajaj Auto. TVS Apache RTR in Trouble? "

Cool bro! Sorry for misreading ur post.

Come on man, dont make me feel that i am talking to a kid

BTW,coming to ur post, Whom dd i insult and where?

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Phew! That's some hatred for Bajaj!

Even with the so called DTSi tech, their 150/180 can stand no chance against a stock RTR which has a single plug and the most basic engine layout.

+1

^ Since when was calling a spade a spade termed as 'hatred'?

Without any doubts what so ever, I do admire Bajaj for what they did with Pulsar... and So do I admire TVS for the RTR... but whats happening now from the Bajaj house is sheer madness! I am surprised that the so called industry experts who grant patents are granting patents to existing technologies....

Well, That was when somebody said a 180 doesnt even stand a chance to a RTR.

point taken!

But when TVS can apply patents for Lockable storage space in the fuel tank as in Flame, and also for Eco and Power mode LEDs, Why cant Bajaj apply for DTS-i,etc Though the Exhaustec hoopla was a media goof up.

And patents are Country specific FYI. And bajaj brought in DTS-i first in India for bikes and hold the patent for engines between 75cc~250cc.

I am not debating on what they can apply for and what they cannot, I am against the media hype they directly/indirectly create!

Errrrrrrrr... Media hype is created by the media only i guess

And that s how they managed to mix up DTS-i and Exhaustec. Just to create a hype. And the purpose of creating this thread was also the same.

Welcome to the world of PR\corporate communications... Was there ever an OFFICIAL quote from media apologizing\clarifying for the 'mis-communication' to the masses...?
The damage was already done...

Anyways my last post to this thread.... I dont see a point in discussing this further...

EDIT: Read the media release again, shall you.... TVS Officials have come out against it.... not the the media and niether have Bajaj....

Guess u have to read Post #44 there. Locate the news item on that image and read it fully.

And last post or no post, doesnt affect me in any way

And why in world would the media apologize,

Just the note in which it was put across.The sheer hatred was "resonating". Otherwise, I totally agree with whats happening.