Big Car Companies dominate Cleantech patents!

[JoeReal]

So Aptera lawyers, better start poring over. The big car companies could have a field day trolling for concept patents that they can claim to own, and therefore will stop innovations of emerging companies like Aptera Motors...


"We’ve been known to chide Detroit for being slow at innovation, and laud all those Silicon Valley startups out there, but according to data on the number of granted patents in the first quarter of 2008, car companies are actually leading in terms of intellectual property. New York-based intellectual property law firm Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti puts together the so-called Clean Energy Patent Growth Index that follows granted patents for cleantech, and the firm says that in the first quarter of this year, automotive companies dominated the top 10....."

Complete Article:
http://earth2tech.com/2008/06/12/gasp-car-companies-dominating-cleantech-patents/#more-2442

[Vasil]

Want to to throw a wrench into major auto makers' operations? Let them keep doing what they're doing. You can't stop innovation. The more you publish the fact that major auto makers own clean tech patents, yet are so slow to bring them to market, it arises suspicion in the masses about their motives. However, if companies like Aptera and Tesla make their own clean tech and come to market quickly, it only confirms the ulterior motives of the major auto makers.

If you have the ideas in your hand, bringing it to market should be a matter of paperwork. The fact that they delay it to market or don't bring it at all only shows that they have much to gain by perpetuating the petroleum problem. Besides, you think internal combustion engine makers and their subcomponent providers would be all that happy if suddenly demand for combustion engine parts and accessories fell off the face of the earth? What about fuel filters, oil filters, gas tanks, spark plugs, mufflers, catalytic converters, etc? Their demand would drop to only the markets where combustion and diesel engines are required, only making up a small portion of basic consumer transportation (heck, the Aptera Typ-1h uses a gas generator, but that sounds like an in-house design).