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Tesla said that they won't initiate lawsuits against anybody who uses their tech "in good faith". That doesn't really mean that anybody can use their patents, does it? What is the IP strategy behind such a move?
Thank you in advance for your professional insight!
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It means that Tesla will not sue people who use the ideas in their patents to build their own products. What it does not permit is for someone to take a component from a Tesla car, scan it and 3D print it. That would be copyright infringement and unfair competition too - in the European sense.
Tesla shares are at about 30 times book value. The shareholders benefit from the giving away of the patent rights by reason of the expansion of the market - Tesla needs a large national and international electric charging infrastructure for the manufacturing to benefit from economies of scale
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