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COMMENT: Ford opens up its EV patent pool – but for a fee

BY PAUL PRICE. Ford is offering something of a halfway house between the full-blown open-access offered by Tesla and the default offering under many patent laws of a compulsory licence being available via the national patent office

Ford has recently joined Tesla in making available its pool of patents relating to electric vehicles (EV) in the hope of directly boosting industry-wide research and development, and thereby indirectly making EVs more attractive to consumers by offering improvements such as better vehicle range between battery charges.

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