By abandoning its patent policy, electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors will try to de-electrify the patent climate and prevent the progress of electric cars from being held hostage. Is this the beginning of the end of the patent wars? Steve Jobs is probably turning in his grave at this thought, while Nikola Tesla is sleeping a little more peacefully after a long time.
Tesla Motors therefore its patents for electric vehicles he will no longer keep to himself. CEO of the company Elon Musk he emphasized that the judgment will not prosecute anyone who uses their technology in good faith. They decided on this bold move because the electric car industry is in a crunch and currently only accounts for 1% of the car market. Although patents are the 'holy grail' of manufacturers, Musk believes that the system has become a stifle of innovation, which wraps automotive mastodons in cotton wool while clipping the wings of smaller companies, so he wants to cut patent Gordian knot. Tesla Motors has a common higher goal in front of it, i.e. reducing the number of vehicles on oil derivatives, and not its own interests.
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He hopes for two-way traffic, i.e. an insight into the insides of others, because "United we are stronger, divided we fall."The fear that larger manufacturers would copy them and thus dig their own grave is like a fear for them, but there is nothing around it. Patent policy is therefore increasingly taking a defensive stance, as Twitter and Google, like Marilyn Monroe in the movie Seven Years of Scum, showed the world what is hidden under the 'skirt'.
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