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What Tesla Stands To Gain From Sharing Its Patents
While the wording of the statement is too ambiguous to be interpreted as a declaration that Tesla is going to make its patents available to anyone who wishes to see them for zero license fees, it does hint at the possibility that the automaker is willing to offer to license its technologies on Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory terms.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/06/16/what-tesla-stands-to-gain-from-sharing-its-patents/
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Tesla Will Allow Others To Use Its Patents - WSJ
Luxury electric-car maker Tesla Motors said it would offer its proprietary technology to other companies without charge in a move to make electric vehicles more widely available.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-motors-says-it-will-allow-others-to-use-its-patents-1402594375
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What’s Driving Tesla’s Open Source Gambit?
Should a car be treated like a piece of software? That is essentially what Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, has done.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/whats-driving-teslas-open-source-gambit/
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What Elon Musk did — and did not — do when he “opened” Tesla’s patents
It’s hard to say what was odder: the headline that sounded like it was written by a little kid, or much of the reaction to it.
https://gigaom.com/2014/06/14/what-elon-musk-did-and-did-not-do-when-he-opened-teslas-patents/
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Technology sharing - The Truth About Cars
Over five years ago, Daimler AG acquired a 9.1 percent interest in Tesla, gaining 1,000 battery packs for its Smart EV in exchange for helping to put the Model S on the road to production.
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/tag/technology-sharing
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Technology-sharing | TeslaMondo
Posts about Technology-sharing written by RWF
https://teslamondo.com/category/technology-sharing-2/
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FreshMinds - Why Tesla's technology sharing is beneficial for all
Tesla is making its electric vehicle technology open source. Where others protect their IP, Tesla see the benefit of this move to the industry and to them.
http://www.freshminds.net/2014/06/tesla-making-technology-available-good-electric-vehicle-market-tesla/
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Tesla, Inc. - Wikipedia
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced in June 2014, that the company will allow its technology patents be used by anyone in good faith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Technology_Sharing
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All Our Patent Are Belong To You | Tesla
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.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
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Here's what Tesla's 'good faith' patent stance actually means | VentureBeat | Business | by Eric Blattberg
Legally, Tesla could still charge for access to its patented technologies. But it almost certainly won’t. The benefits of fostering a standard platform for electric car tech far outweigh short term revenue gains from paid licensing agreements. And that mindset demonstrates that, at its core, Tesla is a tech company, not a car company.
https://venturebeat.com/2014/06/14/heres-what-teslas-good-faith-patent-stance-actually-means/
