re: Tesla: All our patents are belong to you

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I read the actual claim. As a former photographer, I honestly find nothing novel in it.

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Interesting - then you've put more thought into it than everyone else writing about it which is good.

Companies get patents all the time that they probably have some doubt about their validity - but what are they to do? The patent examiner says it's patentable...the company might have some doubts but nothing concrete they know about, so it's not like they're going to turn it down. A lot of those patents are in force for a few years, and when it comes time for the company to pay the maintenance fees on them 3.5 years after they issue, they just don't pay. The patent lapses (but is still out there on the internet).

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I don't get the outrage. It's unenforceable. It does highlight some of the deficiencies in the application>grant process though.

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I agree - I understand the public concern, I don't get the public hysteria (at times). We have many more national issues to be hysterical about besides supposed "bad patents."

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You are not thinking like a businessman. You are thinking like a king. What is your end game here, market share? or profit?

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Profit. Businesses exist for one purpose, to provide it's owner(s) profit. Abd like I said, the big auto companies will take the information that Tesla just handed them for free and use their massive resources to turn a profit on a level Tesla cannot compete with.

There us a reason that in the history of human commerse there has never been an instance where some guy had a great idea for a new product and he got rich by giving that idea away to his competition.

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Profit. Businesses exist for one purpose, to provide it's owner(s) profit.

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Of course. But like everyone has said here. Tesla is basically maxed out profit until the market for electric cars is expanded to a greater % of the population because they are the man at electric cars right now and well known for it too.

As many have theorized on here, the only way to do that is to expand the infrastructure or hope for a huge shift in the market conditions.

Elon can only do one thing to influence one of these things. If he allows other to use his technology and at the same time continues to improve and make top of the line electric cars, he will have a market share no matter what and also expand the % of the population that uses electric cars and also likely improve the infrastructure to use these cars throughout the country. People still love Ray Bans even though there are cheaper sunglasses that do the exact same thing.

Plus, there will be agreements made i would imagine even though he says free use. Companies using Tesla patents will want a contract to make sure Tesla won't back out of its promise to allow free use of patents. they will want legal standing once they start to use everything

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I would likely be pissed if I was an invester in Tesla. I mean, why give it away? License the frick out of the technology, THEN encourage innovation.

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Why? What is holding back Tesla is the development of the infrastructure to support the type of vehicles they are producing. If this move gets more companies producing similar vehicles thereby making the infrastructure upgrades necessary that would massively expand Tesla's potential market.

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elon musk isn't a dummy. there is a plan, and i'd bet it's a very smart one.

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Hell yeah! Look at all the free advertising and awareness he's getting without spending a dime.

Who have even thought about Tesla today without this publicity stunt?

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Time to get out of any Tesla investments. Appears Elon has gotten his cash, and now hes ready to ride off into to the sunset as a champion of the environment (either that, or he now knows that he'll never have the battery technology to make this car for the long haul)

Either way, stocks are about to bottom out

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Apple spent tons of R&D money for technology it gave away, that other companies made more use of than it did, for the sake of bettering the market overall. That's the point, and that's exactly what Tesla is doing.

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Keep telling yourself that. Like I said, there is a reason no business has ever done what he's done. He might he smart, but it's not like this bastard has suddenly figured out some great business move that nobody before has ever thought of. You don't just give away all your patents. It's beyond stupid.