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Mallya Owned Force India To Pay $1 Mn Legal Costs
The British Court ruled against Force India over its legal action against Aerolab and Caterham chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne, which the Court judged, the team couldn't establish. Force India had accused that the Italian firm had "systematically" copied significant parts of Force India's car when designing the Team Lotus T127.
This is on top of the similar amount which Force India was ordered to pay Italian design company Aerolab in March 2011 regarding the same case. The company based in Silverstone, UK has been ordered to pay the amount to Caterham within 14 days.
However, the Court awarded Force India £20,900 over use of its intellectual property rights which it said was used as a "shortcut" to speed up the development of the Team Lotus car for the 2010 season. Force India was formed in 2007 and the team's 42.5% of shares were bought by another Indian company Sahara India Pariwar in 2011 at $100 million.
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