{"id":8823,"date":"2014-06-13T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T08:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8823"},"modified":"2014-06-13T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T08:22:20","slug":"tesla-following-volvos-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/tesla-following-volvos-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla following Volvo&#8217;s lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/blog\/all-our-patent-are-belong-you\"> Tesla Motors made their patents on electric vehicles available to all for free<\/a>. A good marketing move, and one that may also help the start-up motor industry. In all the coverage, there was one mention of Volvo opening up one of their patents in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Added to my &#8220;things I now know&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theautochannel.com\/news\/2009\/08\/11\/473711.html\">Volvo invented and patented the three-point seatbelt<\/a>, and then opened the patent and allowed everyone free use of the design in other car designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw Tesla Motors made their patents on electric vehicles available to all for free. A good marketing move, and one that may also help the start-up motor industry. In all the coverage, there was one mention of Volvo opening up one of their patents in the past. Added to my &#8220;things I now know&#8230;&#8221; Volvo invented and patented the three-point seatbelt, and then opened the patent and allowed everyone free use of the design in other car designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Tesla following Volvo's lead","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[1186,5110,5108,5109],"class_list":["post-8823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","tag-patent","tag-seat-belt","tag-tesla","tag-volvo","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2ij","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}