The Bengaluru-based electric vehicle giant Electric Wave CEO Bhavish Aggarwal, during a press conference on the sidelines of the company’s Sankalp event, said that the company has sent a strong response to MapMyIndia.
Aggarwal dismissed MapMyIndia’s claims as “opportunistic” and noted that the move was strategically timed around Ola Electric’s IPO.
“Empty ships make more noise. In the run-up to our IPO, they made a lot of noise. They were totally opportunistic about it. We sent them a strong response; we wanted to negotiate with them after the IPO. In that time frame, we sent them a response; they have not responded to that,” Aggarwal said.
“They attacked Ola Electric, which is not even in the mapping business. What they have done is totally opportunistic and random. We will speak to them again at the right forum and at the right time,” he added.
Last month, MapMyIndia’s parent company CE Info Systems sent a legal notice to Ola Electricaccusing him of copying their data to build Ola Maps.
The company alleged that the EV maker breached its licensing agreement, which was signed in 2022 when Ola Electric partnered with MapMyIndia to provide navigation services for the S1 Pro electric scooter.
The agreement reportedly prohibited Ola from bundling the licensed product with any other competing product, reverse engineering or attempting to extract or copy the source code of any API of the licensed product or related software.
MapMyIndia He alleged that Ola cached and stored the data and reverse engineered a licensed product.
“You have duplicated our client’s API (application programming interface) and SDKs (software development kits) from proprietary sources belonging to our client to create OLA maps. It is strongly stated that you have copied/derived our client’s proprietary data to further your illegal purposes and gain unfair commercial gains,” according to a legal notice sent by CE Info Systems.
“Its claim that it has developed APIs and map data/Ola Maps solely through open maps is factually incorrect and not sustainable,” the company added.
In response, Ola Electric dismissed the claims made by MapMyIndia’s parent company.
“We want to make it unequivocally clear that these allegations are false, malicious and misleading. Ola Electric stands by the integrity of its business practices. We will respond to the notice promptly,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.
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