CE Info Systems, the parent company of MapMyIndia, has issued a legal notice to Ola Electric, accusing the electric vehicle manufacturer of copying its proprietary data. This development comes as Ola Electric, led by Bhavish Aggarwal, recently launched its own mapping service in India.
In the legal notice, MapMyIndia alleges that Ola Electric breached the license agreement established in 2022, which allowed Ola to use MapMyIndia’s navigation services for its S1 Pro electric scooter. According to MapMyIndia, the agreement strictly prohibited Ola Electric from co-mingling the licensed product with any similar competing products. It also barred the company from engaging in any reverse engineering or attempts to extract or copy the source code from MapMyIndia’s APIs or related software.
“By caching and saving our data, Ola Electric has violated the licensing agreement signed in 2021,” asserts MapMyIndia in its notice. The Delhi-based firm further stated its intention to pursue appropriate legal action against Ola Electric, which could include both civil and criminal proceedings.
