After AGCO, TAFE Wins Brand Dispute Case

Chennai: Tamil Nadu-based Tractors and Farm Equipment (TAFE) and AGCO, both have claimed legal victory from the Madras High Court in a dispute about the Massey Ferguson tractor brand. After AGCO, a global leader in design, manufacture and distribution of agriculture machinery, said that the Madras High Court has overturned interim injunction on the dispute, TAFE came out with a press release saying that ownership and other related issues will be decided by the single judge of the court before whom applications are pending, citing the same High Court order.

TAFE noted that the court’s directive recognized its use of the brand for over six decades. “The present status quo is in continuation of the status quo granted to TAFE as early as in April 2024, and the latest of several judicial orders protecting TAFE’s rights to the use of the Massey Ferguson brand,” the company in a statement said. TAFE, founded in 1960 in Chennai, is one of the world’s largest tractor manufacturers and the second-largest in India by volume, producing over 180,000 tractors annually.