特斯拉开放了多少专利,和特斯拉的“fairness”

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根据新加坡咨询公司GreyB的统计 截至2023年末,全球范围内特斯拉共拥有专利3304项(不包含审批中专利),其中有2397项仍然有效[2]。

 

而特斯拉开放了多少专利呢?特斯拉官网上专利承诺部分有专利列表,其中标注了特斯拉开放的所有 361项专利,包括专利号和专利名[3]。但是,在这361项专利中,包含着相当多的重复专利。如“Battery charging based on cost and life”(基于成本和寿命的电池充电)仅这一项充电专利,就注册了四项专利号,分别为AU 2008276398、CN ZL200880107602.X、JP 5088976、US 7782021;专利号前的字母代表着专利注册地区,由于专利保护存在区域性,特斯拉在澳大利亚、中国、日本和美国都注册了这同一项专利。刨除此类重复的情况,特斯拉共有222项开放专利。

 

下面引用一段 University of Geogeria 法学院 Benjamin M. Hill 的讲解

Powering Intellectual Pr owering Intellectual Property Sharing: How t ty Sharing: How to Make Tesla’s Patent Pledge Effective

Benjamin M. Hill

 

Another aspect of Musk’s “good faith” involves how the companies interact when using one another’s patents. In a conference call, he made it clear that just because Tesla was making its technology freely available, it did not expect other manufactures to follow suit if Tesla wanted to use their patented technology.66 That being said, if another company and Tesla are using each other’s similarly valued technology, he would not expect the other to sue or collect licensing fees.67