Nikkei Asia has published an interesting read on Tesla’s patent numbers, which now number in the hundreds and cover a wide variety of topics. It seems like Tesla has a new patent for something every other day. Nikkei conducted the study in collaboration with Intellectual Property Landscape, a Tokyo analytics … [continued]
The fossil fuel lobby often accuses the Obama Administration of picking energy winners and losers but a new report pulls the rug out from under that line.
Patents and standards are the unsung heroes of renewable energy innovation. International standards ensure that the wind turbines next door and the solar panels on our roofs are safe and performing as expected.
Toyota will be making more than 5,600 of its hydrogen fuel-cell technologies patents free to use for a large number of companies in the industry/sector — absolutely no charges, including no royalty payments — according to recent reports. Seemingly taking a move from Tesla’s recent playbook, the move is certainly … [continued]
Elon Musk has made yet another highly interesting and somewhat unpredictable move/announcement (in a long line of such moves) — Tesla Motors will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, uses the company’s technology. According to Musk, the move is intended to help spur further/faster development in/of … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Electronics giant Samsung may have decided that it is qualified to enter the electric car arena, and it may well be. The South Korean smartphone, TV, camera, laptop, etc leader (which is actually South Korea’s largest conglomerate) has apparently filed several patents connected to electric … [continued]
Originally published on the MIT website. The number of patents issued for renewable-energy technologies has risen sharply over the last decade, according to new research from MIT and the Santa Fe Institute (SFI). The study shows that investments in research and development, as well as in the growth of markets … [continued]
A new study from the University of Chicago is providing compelling evidence that certain types of intellectual property rights work to stifle subsequent research on the copyrighted technology. “The goal of intellectual property rights — such as the patent system — is to provide incentives for the development of new … [continued]
Toyota is moving and shaking in clean energy patents, leading green-tech patents for the third consecutive quarter. The US Patent and Trademark Office approved 798 clean-tech patents during the third quarter of 2012, including 71 from Toyota.
Free stuff is awesome. But let’s face it, there’s usually a catch to ‘free’. Getting information on patents is free — the catch is that sorting through patents can be incredibly time consuming since — even just for cleantech, there are thousands of cleantech patents ever year. Enter CleanTech … [continued]
