Tesla opened all their patents to competitors for this reason (under weird terms that no one has taken them up on, giving them more rights than the patent syste

Tesla opened all their patents to competitors for this reason (under weird terms that no one has taken them up on, giving them more rights than the patent system itself ever gives, such as competitors can't copy their unpatented designs, even unknown future ones, if they take them up on the offer to use their patents for free). According to them patents aren't valuable, it's the velocity of innovation. It made for nice sound bites of how the valley works differently than stodgy old companies. But in reality it seemed to be a sham of you can use our patents only if you don't use our stuff that isn't even patented.