What Elon means, Workaround developments or foreign corporate implementation justify not paying royalties when borrowing isn't feasible.

Great job, thanks!

Combined with solar, sodium ion batteries have real possibility to solve many environmental problems. I would like to hear more about reclamations of resources as compared to lithium.

Despite the perfect English narrative, this video is marred by a single slip... All Our Patent are Belong to You // Tesla Patents 101 Thanks anyway.

Patents, like copyright, stifels creativity and innovation. At least patents have a more reasonable time limit than copyright. Trademarks are great though, since they protect costumers from fraud.

learned something new: the reciprocity catch. Now I understand why no competitor dares to use the Tesla patents and lose the last tiny advantage they think they have over Tesla with their own, expensive patents

Hit 200k today. Thank you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started with 14k in last month 2024 ,,,,,

BYD EVs spontaneous combusting all over China and this channel trying to gaslight that the blade battery is safer from thermal runaway.

Patents are not for the weak. Most patents don't matter but the ones that do can carry a billion dollar company. Recently in the battery industry, LG ensol and panasonic combined many of their patents that do and don't matter into a patents consortium "Tulip Innovation" in hungary and are about to play gate keeper with all these new players in europe and internationally (with a focus on china-based companies setting up shop in europe)

Love the "cowboy approach " disclaimer. I learned much, good stuff

What should be mentioned is the pharmaceutical industry who relies extremely on patents. Its also because they have (I think its somehow in, or linked with the patent) extremely high expenses and it takes a very long time (10-15 years or even longer) until they can bring the products to the. In this area patents can last I think 3 years longer. So in the past they had a very good protection and a kind of monopoly. Currently Novo Nordisk is in such a position. But it was said there are already competitors. Maybe this extraordinary good method of keeping competitors through patents is even falling in the pharmaceutical industry (included Biotech).

You need to check your patent # source. Tesla Inc (EV business) only owns 416 active patent families. This is a very very small number for a large company. So small it is essentially zero. For comparison, Toyota has 54,424 active patent families.

"Patents are for the week!" I love it. Makes a good point.

Yes, I enjoyed this video and hit the like button because it’s all I can afford for now. I just hope my Tesla shares 10x soon! As an aside, one point you made in this video really helped me understand Elon’s strengths. You said that Elon is a great engineer and that is why he attracts so many great engineers to work in his company. Too often I have seen claims that Elon’s not an engineer for all kinds of lame reasoning but if he’s not an engineer, then how can he attract so many great engineers? Great engineers, not just engineers, they’re a special breed!

I am a patent attorney and I doubt I could improve much on this piece. Elon came out of the IT industry where patents are commonly used for licensing. This seems to be the foundation of the approach he has adopted with Tesla. Patents are still being used to maintain some control of the innovations, while requiring other actors to innovate and not just take.

Note that depending on which survey you look at, the attractiveness of Tesla and SpaceX as employers of engineers varies - using this metric as an assessment of Tesla's future potential is therefore problematic and a range of surveys should be looked at.

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I wonder how many people even get the reference "all our patent are belong to you"?

Ahh yes.... The Elon echo chamber. Just huffing farts all day long.

Patent trolls are a real thing.

One huge reason to file patents is to prevent other businesses from suing Tesla for using technology that Tesla developed but some other patent troll actually patented .

Thanks for clarifying this topic as it seemed to be very controversial but knowledgable people tend to be more fact based than emotional.

Without patents no inventor would have a fair chance to profit from their inventions. Patents may seem unnecessary until the Chinese steal your invention and leave you with nothing. It would kill most of the world’s drive to innovate.

WOOHOO!!!!!!!

Jordon great job as always. Another point (maybe you covered it not sure): I believe Teslas patents are effectively reciprocal, that is if you sue Tesla for violating your patent you forfeit the protection of being able to use Teslas patents with legal protection. So if Tesla intentionally or not, infringes on your patent, you can only enforce that if you are willing to give up your own access to Tesla's patents. I think it's a remarkably good strategy - helps keep Tesla focused on engineering not legalities. And it is both fair and generous since Teslas patents have to be worth a fortune.

Patents... the biggest co-opt of human progress that ever was, and one of the worst systems humanity has devised for control. On surface level it's a great idea, but if you look any further it shows it's true nature. I'll skip this one, I already know too much.

democratic free market capitalism is based on voluntary exchanges of resources (or ideas) on COMPETITIVE markets, where the 'free' in 'free markets' stands for supply and demand being FREE to adjust to each other. A society granting monopoles by shielding individual suppliers from competition via any form of Intellectual Property BREAKS this core principle and creates a winner-takes-all-environment. Verdict: IP is unsustainable

The language in Tesla’s patent use is crazy. Tesla guidelines make it impossible for anyone to actually use them. They have to agree to give up pretty much all of their own IP rights wrt Tesla in perpetuity to use them.

The reality of Tesla open patents may well be the end of the western legacy auto as China cashes in. That, along with no advertising, unions or dealers, makes Tesla and Elon enemy no 1.

BS! You don’t protect IP, you are dead!

Thanks Jordan, I appreciate your effort to make this topic clear and simple.

Is a company better able to retain its trade secrets by not apply for patent protection? I am thinking of SpaceX. No one else, not even China, has been able to land and reuse a booster rocket. If SpaceX was awarded patents for its reusable rocket process then other countries would be able to follow the patent documentation and build its own Falcon 9. ( is a patent holder obliged to answer questions when the explanation of the product or process is too vague? )

Excellent explanation. Now I have a video I can share whenever someone doesn't understand Elon's position about Open Source patents.

What's there not to like?

It is not innovation that matters. It is the pace of innovation says Elon. OEM’s regardless of Tesla open sourcing their patents, are too cumbersome requiring meetings upon meetings to decide on a gizmo to be added to a vehicle and a further two years to develop and introduce that gizmo.. Tesla make fifteen iterations on every vehicle every week that are implemented into the vehicles as they are moving along the production line. So every new Tesla cars have greater innovation than the ones preceding them.

A company's patents being Open source from an engineers perspective means that investing yourself in the company isn't a 'dead end'. When the company is done with you, the knowledge you gained on the job will be valuable elsewhere. This has all sorts of implications, resulting in a more attractive workplace.

lol elon is not one of the best engineers in the world, look up people who worked with him at paypal, it was a success despite him, not due to him

I was happy to suggest to SpaceX that they use hydrophobic paint on their Falcon 9 fairings so they didn't have to catch them in the air. That was obvious, though. I also suggested the design of the Cyber Truck wiring harness, but they changed it when they couldn't figure out how to filter out the noise and added ethernet.

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The patent is nearly the best idea ever invented to prevent lawyer starvation. It can't really help anyone else. It's an attempt to kill competition as well as possible for a length of time. Not good IMO.

To block other companies to patent ideas that have already been invented by tesla they dont need to patent the idea but rather just publish it officially on a conference talk, research paper etc...

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Nice job, Jordan. This is the kind if info many need to better understand the business world and hopefully be able to better detect BS. Many media outlets take full advantage of lack of understanding to twist stories to fit a narrative they are pushing.

Patents don’t matter with China. BYD essentially stole many Tesla designs. That would happen with patents as well. China laughs at our IP.

Elon sometimes offends me. But usually is because I don’t understand him. When I see all that he has done for America and Americans I admire him and respect him

Patents cover two things in general: Products and Processes. All patents should have an expiration that is no long than a decade and if the patent isn't used in producing a product or the process is never deployed then the patent should expire sooner.

Best solution ever for reducing our emissions is for everyone to buy BYD ev for $15k no tariffs and tax free. Achievable within 2 years. Estimation is 40 million BYD cars on the road withing 5 years.

I don't believe in patents, but I do believe in trade secrets.

Jordan is a national treasure. Yes, I know I’m repeating myself.