Jed If I remember right you think that all inventions or because of support by the government. Now you are entering into the judgement of a major corporation and it's decision making. Amazing. Lennart
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 17:19 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Toyota has 24,000 patents for hybrid automobile technology. Yesterday, > they announced that they will no longer charge royalties for any of this. > They are putting all their hybrid car IP into the public domain. > > This was featured on the 7 o'clock national news. I thought: "those people > must be crazy! Why are they doing that? I can see lowering the cost of > royalties, but why make it free??" On the news a Toyota spokesman said they > are doing it for the benefit of mankind, to reduce pollution and help avert > global warming. I did not believe that for a second. > > Today I read a news account of this which makes more sense: > > https://www.autoblog.com/2019/04/03/toyota-to-share-hybrid-patents/ > > They want to sell the hybrid machinery itself to other carmakers. The > motors, control units and so on. Not just the IP; the machinery. They are > making the patents free to encourage the use of this technology. They must > think they are so far ahead, they can make money selling the actual > machines. Other companies will find that cheaper than developing their own > versions. This also makes sense because Toyota thinks hybrid technology may > not last much longer. They have to sell it now, and cash on it now, because > in another 20 years it will be replaced with pure electric propulsion. That > was one of the things the news report said last night. > > This relates to cold fusion and the business strategy that might be used > to make money with it. It is a strategy only a large company like Toyota > could use. I have never heard of this strategy, or thought of it myself. It > is clever! I may discuss this in messages here. Or, you can read my > thoughts about this starting here: > > > https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/5654-brillouin-energy-corporation-bec-updates/?postID=108407#post108407 >
