Patent Law

Ta-tah to the Tata?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Thousands of violent protesters recently forced Tata, the Indian conglomerate that owns Land Rover and Jaguar, to halt work on a plant being built to produce the world?s cheapest car, the £1,250 Nano. The move could result in £200 million in investment costs being written off.

Tata stopped work three weeks ago, saying that it could not guarantee its workers? safety at the factory in the state of West Bengal. The billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani said that the Nano crisis showed how protesters were creating ?a fear psychosis to slow down certain projects of national importance?. Other companies, including Vedanta, the London-listed mining company, have encountered similar problems in India.

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