> There are not a lot of successful examples where the host company actually profited from the invention.
Maybe we should not hold on to the bureaucracy patents bring. Especially considering in some countries international patent are used as recipe to copy innovations.
Tesla has moved their patents into open source because they are under the opinion that competition is won by attracting the best engineers.
> Elon Musk: "After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible."
Maybe we should not hold on to the bureaucracy patents bring. Especially considering in some countries international patent are used as recipe to copy innovations.
Tesla has moved their patents into open source because they are under the opinion that competition is won by attracting the best engineers.
> Elon Musk: "After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible."
https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-y...