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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTesla Motors has opened all their patents
Interesting....
June 12, 2014
All Our Patent Are Belong To You
By Elon Musk, CEO
Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.
When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible.
At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldnt have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesnt burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales.
Read the rest: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
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Tesla Motors has opened all their patents (Original Post)
pokerfan
Jun 2014
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alittlelark
(18,890 posts)1. Tesla is awesome!! They are the 'real deal'.
Very smart... their name will remain as the fulcrum - let's hope others take the ball and RUN WITH IT !!!
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)2. What it's like to own a Tesla Model S by the Oatmeal
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)3. Stealing this....... just sayin'...
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)4. I want one
but not for $70K. So hopefully, opening the patents will expand the market and bring prices down.
About that 17 inch touchscreen:
Any chance of changing the user interface to something like this: