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19. Elon Musk’s Open Innovation: Tesla, Intellectual Property, and Climate Change

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Abstract

This chapter considers Elon Musk and his company Tesla, and evaluates their statements in respect of intellectual property, open innovation, and climate change. It is worth situating the story in the context of the growing literature on intellectual property and clean technologies. This paper considers Tesla’s shifting strategies in respect of patent law, policy, and practice. The work explores Tesla’s embrace of an open source philosophy, and the motivations behind this business strategy. The chapter analyses the larger issues about business development relating to electric vehicles and clean technologies. It examines how Tesla’s rivals have responded—particularly looking at Toyota Motors. This paper concludes by considering Tesla in light of larger initiatives in respect of clean technologies, renewable energy and climate change. Of particular note is sustainable transportation; the development of a Gigafactory; Elon Musk’s complementary work at SolarCity in promoting solar technologies; and the big battery project in South Australia. The chapter concludes with a consideration of Elon Musk’s advocacy for the adoption and implementation of the Paris Agreement 2015.

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Fußnoten
1
Tesla Motors (2012).
 
2
Ibid.
 
3
Ibid.
 
4
Ibid.
 
5
Vance (2015).
 
6
Telsa Motors, Executives: Elon Musk, http://​www.​teslamotors.​com/​executives. Accessed 1 May 2018.
 
8
Tesla Motors (2014).
 
9
Tesla Motors (2012).
 
10
Ibid.
 
11
Musk (2014).
 
12
Ibid.
 
13
Ibid.
 
14
Ibid.
 
15
Ibid.
 
16
Menell and Tran (2014).
 
17
Brown (2013).
 
18
Derclaye (2010).
 
19
Sommer (2013).
 
20
Karachalios et al. (2010).
 
21
Lane (2011).
 
22
Maskus and Okediji (2012), Sarnoff (2013), Reichman et al. (2014), Cimoli et al. (2014), Allan et al. (2014).
 
23
Contreras and Jacob (2017).
 
24
Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, opened for signature 12 December 2015 (entered into force 4 November 2016) (in UNFCCC, Report of the Conference of the Parties on its Twenty-First Session, Addendum, UN Doc FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, 29 Jan 2016).
 
25
Tesla Motors (2012).
 
26
Ibid.
 
27
Ibid.
 
28
Shah (2014).
 
29
Ibid.
 
30
Ibid.
 
31
Tesla Motors (2012).
 
32
Ibid.
 
33
Ibid.
 
34
Ibid.
 
35
Ibid.
 
36
Ibid.
 
37
Ibid.
 
38
Ibid.
 
39
Musk (2014).
 
40
Ibid.
 
41
Ibid.
 
42
Ibid.
 
43
Ibid.
 
44
Jones (2013).
 
45
Loveday (2013).
 
46
Ibid.
 
47
Ibid.
 
48
Ibid.
 
49
Tesla Motors Inc. v pointSET Corporation, United States District Court for the Northern District of California (2013), http://​pdfserver.​amlaw.​com/​ca/​TESLAsuit.​pdf.
 
50
Ibid.
 
51
Ibid.
 
52
Ibid.
 
53
Ibid.
 
54
Ibid.
 
55
Nikola Corporation v. Tesla Inc., United States District Court for the District of Arizona (2018), Case 2:18-cv-01344-GMS; O’Kane (2018), and Guess (2018).
 
56
Rimmer (2011).
 
57
Kamdar (2014).
 
58
Ibid.
 
59
Ibid.
 
61
Tucker (2014).
 
62
Kamdar (2014).
 
63
Greenberg (2014).
 
64
Ibid.
 
65
See Rimmer (2006).
 
66
Julie Samuels quoted in Finley (2014).
 
67
Ibid.
 
68
Totaro (2014).
 
69
Ibid.
 
70
Ibid.
 
71
Ibid.
 
72
Frick (2014).
 
73
Ibid.
 
74
Lobel (2013).
 
75
Masnick (2015).
 
76
Ibid.
 
77
Tesla (2015).
 
78
Ibid.
 
79
Ibid.
 
80
Lambert (2017a, b), and M. Ozbek, B. Pierquet and A. Baglino (inventors) and Tesla Motors Inc. (applicant), ‘Scalable and Flexible Cell-Based Energy Storage System’, United States Patent Application Publication No. US 2017/0093156 A1, Publication Date: 30 March 2017.
 
81
Tesla, Inc. v Tripp (2018) 3:18-cv-00296; and Wong (2018).
 
82
Martin (2014).
 
83
Musk (2014).
 
85
Lessig (1999, 2001, 2004, 2008).
 
86
Moody (2004).
 
87
Wiener (2006).
 
88
Ibid., 302–303.
 
89
Rimmer (2011).
 
91
Green XChange, http://​greenxchange.​cc/​. Accessed 1 May 2018.
 
93
Contreras et al. (2018).
 
95
Lane (2014).
 
96
Ibid.
 
97
Ibid.
 
98
Tapscott and Williams (2010).
 
99
Ibid.
 
100
Ibid.
 
101
Ibid.
 
102
Rifkin (2014).
 
103
Ibid.
 
104
Ibid.
 
105
Ibid., 24.
 
106
Ibid., 24.
 
107
Ibid., 226–231.
 
108
Ibid., 231.
 
109
Gans (2014).
 
110
Musk (2014).
 
111
McGrath (2014).
 
112
Davis (2010).
 
113
Tesla Motors (2012).
 
114
Associated Press (2014).
 
115
Seba (2014).
 
116
Ibid., 102.
 
117
Ibid., 103.
 
118
Ibid., 104.
 
119
Ibid., 111.
 
120
Ibid., 126.
 
121
Ibid., 127.
 
122
Ibid., 7.
 
123
Ibid., 9.
 
124
Ibid., 9.
 
125
Ibid., 8.
 
126
Ibid., 8.
 
127
Associated Press (2014).
 
128
Taylor (2014).
 
129
Winton (2014).
 
130
Oremus (2014).
 
131
Ibid.
 
132
Ibid.
 
133
Ibid.
 
134
Ibid.
 
135
Ibid.
 
136
Moyer (2014).
 
137
Ibid.
 
138
Lee (2014).
 
139
Ibid.
 
140
Ibid.
 
141
Branson (2014).
 
142
Ibid.
 
143
Ibid.
 
144
Ibid.
 
145
Ibid.
 
146
Ibid.
 
147
Branson (2013).
 
148
Ibid.
 
149
Ibid.
 
150
Ibid.
 
151
Ibid.
 
152
Perlow (2014).
 
153
Ibid.
 
154
Ibid.
 
155
Ibid.
 
156
Bessen (2014).
 
157
Ibid.
 
158
Ibid.
 
159
Ibid.
 
160
Contreras and Jacob (2017).
 
161
Vertinsky (2017).
 
162
Bessen et al. (20112012).
 
163
Rimmer (2015).
 
164
Toyota (2015b). For coverage, see BBC News (2015).
 
165
Michio Kaku is a futurist perhaps best known for his popular science books—such as Kaku (1998), and Kaku (2012).
 
166
Kaku (2015).
 
167
Ibid.
 
168
Ibid.
 
169
Carter (2015).
 
170
Ibid.
 
171
Ibid.
 
172
Ibid.
 
173
Ibid.
 
174
Toyota (2015a).
 
175
Ibid.
 
176
Ibid.
 
177
Lane (2015).
 
178
Ibid.
 
179
Ibid.
 
180
Ibid.
 
181
Ibid.
 
182
Ibid.
 
183
Ibid.
 
184
Ibid.
 
185
Ibid.
 
186
Yoney (2013).
 
187
Debord (2015).
 
188
GM Authority (2015).
 
189
Musk (2014).
 
190
Ibid.
 
191
Ibid.
 
192
Schwarzenegger (2009), Sperling and Gordon (2009).
 
193
Ibid. vii.
 
194
Ibid., vii.
 
195
Ibid., vii.
 
196
Tittel (2014).
 
197
Ruffalo (2014).
 
198
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014).
 
199
Ibid.
 
200
Ibid.
 
201
Ibid.
 
202
The White House, Fact Sheet: President Obama’s Plan to Make the U.S. the First Country to Put One Million Advanced Vehicles on the Road http://​www.​whitehouse.​gov/​sites/​default/​files/​other/​fact-sheet-one-million-advanced-technology-vehicles.​pdf (Website available in the Obama presidency).
 
203
Obama (2011).
 
204
Keane (2013).
 
205
Obama (2014).
 
206
Ibid.
 
207
Ibid.
 
208
Tesla Motors, Supercharger Network, http://​www.​teslamotors.​com/​supercharger. Accessed 1 May 2018.
 
209
Huntley (2014).
 
210
Ying and Yang (2014).
 
211
Tesla Motors (2014).
 
213
Hull (2014).
 
214
Wunderman (2014).
 
215
Tesla (2014).
 
216
Lambert (2017a, b).
 
217
McKay (2014).
 
218
SolarCity Corporation (2013).
 
219
Ibid.
 
220
Ibid.
 
221
Ibid.
 
222
Ibid.
 
223
Ibid.
 
224
Musk et al. (2014).
 
225
Ibid.
 
226
Ibid.
 
227
Ibid.
 
228
Ibid.
 
229
Seba (2014).
 
230
Diesendorf (2014).
 
231
Ibid., 44.
 
232
Gore (2014).
 
233
Ibid.
 
234
Ibid.
 
235
Ibid.
 
236
Ibid.
 
237
Ibid.
 
238
Australian Associated Press (2017).
 
239
Ibid.
 
240
Slezak (2018).
 
241
Carey (2018).
 
242
Smith (2017).
 
243
Ibid.
 
244
Canton (2015, 47).
 
245
Gore, Cohen, Shenk, Actual Films, Participant Media, Paramount Pictures (2017), and Gore (2017).
 
246
Musk and others (2017).
 
247
Ibid.
 
248
Ibid.
 
249
Ibid.
 
250
Ibid.
 
251
Ibid.
 
252
ABC News (2017)
 
253
Ibid.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Elon Musk’s Open Innovation: Tesla, Intellectual Property, and Climate Change
verfasst von
Matthew Rimmer
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Verlag
Springer Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2155-9_19