Panotak eller ikke?

[Quintilian]

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

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 couldn't have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn't burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales.

At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all.

Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day.

We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform.

Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world's most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla's position in this regard.

[Thor2014]

Å jeg kunne ikke vært mer enig 

[Tuxedo]

Utrolig.  Helt utrolig bra.

[Epleskreller]

De er noe for seg selv!

[DaX]

Første saken på reddit.com
"Tesla opens up all patents "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"

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/27z8pa/tesla_opens_up_all_patents_maybe_they_were_good/

[Avh]

Et historisk vedtak ..  +1+1+1+...

[sn0le]

Ganske utrolig.
Spesielt når man ser at man f.eks kan ha patent på en tlf med avrundede hjørner og en touchskjerm, og komme unna med det.

[OddB]

Tror sammenligningen med dette telefonselskapet stilner etter dette :-)

[Espen Hugaas Andersen]

Dette er grunnen til at jeg misliker sammenligningen mellom Tesla og Apple. Filosofien er jo helt motsatt.

[vonar]

Jeg vurderer nå å gå til innkjøp av hatt, selv om jeg ikke pleier å gå med det, kun for å kunne ta den av meg for Tesla Motors.

[cra]

Tror sammenligningen med dette telefonselskapet stilner etter dette :-)

Neppe. Tror suksessen kommer til å øke, og det er da den siden av selskapene som sammenlignes. Jeg har i alle fall til gode å se noen sammenligninger på patentfronten (inntil akkurat nå, muligens). I tillegg tror jeg at dersom man begynner å sammenligne Musk og Jobs vil man finne en del likhetstrekk (men helt klart også en del store forskjeller).

[Lokführer]

Vil patentslippet ha noe å si for Teslaeierene i fremtiden?

[Øggen]

Kall meg skeptisk, men jeg tror ikke dette er smart. Aksjen blir jo ikke mer attraktiv av dette!!
Kina jubler iallefall

[Lokführer]

Kall meg skeptisk, men jeg tror ikke dette er smart. Aksjen blir jo ikke mer attraktiv av dette!!
Kina jubler iallefall

Når brydde kineserene seg om patenter sist?

[Amoss]

De sier at dersom noen "med gode intensjoner" bryter patentrettighetene deres, så skal de slippe å bli straffeforfulgt. Det er en viss forskjell på det og det å frigi patentene.

Etter som jeg har forstått så går det ut på at alle kan benytte disse patentene. Men bruker du dem, og du har egne patenter, så har også Tesla rett til å bruke disse uten vederlag.

Med andre ord en veldig god deal for de som ikke har egne patenter, men ikke fult så god for de som sitter på mange...