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>According to Electrek, which has gotten hold of Tesla’s new patent Aren't patents supposed to be public?

• cjblomqvist 5y ago
  Not necessarily before they're accepted I guess?
• rwbhn 5y ago
  It is. https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2021138345&_cid=P11-KR66GK-50560-1 https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20...
• fouc 5y ago
  "gotten hold of" aka "looked it up"
  • justaguy88 5y ago
    To be fair, even doing that is a lot compared to some news sources
    • brutal_chaos_ 5y ago
      True, but really, it's not that much work. News media needs to get back to true journalism. (Sorry to soapbox, I just hate the state of "news" these days)
• xkjkls 5y ago
  They are. Electrek just likes overstating their own importance.
• totalZero 5y ago
  They aren't typically published by the USPTO until 18 months after the priority date. https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s1120.html https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s1120.html
• omgwtfbyobbq 5y ago
  IME, it's typical for news outlets large and small to mine public data sources and imply that their source is somehow exclusive/private/etc.