It sounds like Nikola hold design patents, not invention patents. These are much easier to obtain, but also much easier to get around. Often the reason for taking out a design patent is solely to be able to say you hold a patent.
On 3 May 2018 at 05:35, Cor van de Water via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Sounds like "and if you can't win, sue them." > I put the pics of the two trucks next to each other and can't see much > similarities > other than that they both have wheels, sweeping windshields and streamlined > face, > but just about every new designed vehicle rendering has the same. > > -----Original Message----- > From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Marco Gaxiola via EV > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 7:12 PM > To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List > Cc: Marco Gaxiola > Subject: [EVDL] Nikola Motor sues Tesla over design patent violation > > https://www.electrive.com/2018/05/02/nikola-motor-sues-tesla-over-alleged-design-patent-violation/ > > > Nikola Motor has filed a lawsuit against Tesla claiming the Semi electric > truck to be “substantially” similar to Nikola Motor’s own design of a fuel > cell electric semi truck. In the filing, the infringement is estimated to > be worth a loss of 2 billion dollars to Nikola. Tesla denies the > allegations. > > The lawsuit is based on six design patents issued in the U.S. between > February and April 2018 for its Nikola Motor’s wrap windshield, mid-entry > door, fuselage, fender, side cladding and the overall design of the Nikola > One. Hence Nikola’s claim of the infringement being substantial. > > Tesla had reportedly revealed > <https://www.electrive.com/2017/11/17/tesla-semi-electric-truck-800-km-range/> > the Semi electric truck last November and has since been taking orders > from the likes of FedEx > <https://www.electrive.com/2018/03/27/fedex-orders-20-tesla-semi/>, DHL, or > UPS and also opened the books in several European countries (we reported > <https://www.electrive.com/2017/12/21/pre-orders-tesla-truck-now-possible-europe/> > ). > > Back to the court case and the filing that reads: “Nikola estimates its > harm from Tesla’s infringement to be in excess of $2 billion,” although it > is unclear where Nikola takes this number from. The U.S. American company > had presented their fuel cell truck Nikola One > <https://www.electrive.com/2016/12/05/nikola-motor-girfalco-tesla-cartube/> in > December 2016 and has since been taking orders. So many in fact, that just > a few weeks ago, the company announced it would not require any deposits > any longer and that is had received pre-orders valued at 8 billion dollars > already (we reported > <https://www.electrive.com/2018/04/08/nikola-motor-to-refund-prepayments-for-reserved-trucks/> > ). > > It appears as if Nikola Motors is really wanting (or having) to go head to > head with Tesla in the race for the electrification of the heavy duty > vehicles business. Whilst Tesla is loosely planning to launch the Semi > electric truck around 2019 or 2020, the Nikola One and Nikola Two fuel cell > trucks are only due by 2021. > > Nikola plans to build > <https://www.electrive.com/2018/01/31/nikola-plans-1-billion-factory-make-fuel-cell-trucks-arizona/> > a 1 billion dollar manufacturing facility for its fuel cell trucks near > Phoenix, Arizona next year. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180502/c588f334/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -- Paul Compton www.morini-mania.co.uk www.paulcompton.co.uk (YouTube channel) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
