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The article is critically lacking in insight because it implies that open sourcing patents gave Chinese manufacturers an advantage. That's not how patents work
by sounds 11y ago
The article is critically lacking in insight because it implies that open sourcing patents gave Chinese manufacturers an advantage.
That's not how patents work.
A patent includes the description of how the invention works right in the application. Consequently, if you live in a jurisdiction where you don't fear prosecution, you can immediately clone the idea. The only way Tesla could have kept their ideas "secret" would have been to not patent them at all!
Tesla's patent pledge was just a public statement that, under certain conditions, they wouldn't sue.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> A patent includes the description of how the invention works right in the application. Consequently, if you live in a jurisdiction where you don't fear prosecution, you can immediately clone the idea. The only way Tesla could have kept their ideas "secret" would have been to not patent them at all! That's exactly why SpaceX doesn't patent their technologies; the actors who would copy them are orgs they can't sue (nation states).