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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Toyota to give royalty-free access to hybrid-vehicle patents
By Naomi Tajitsu TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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quercetum
This is closer to communism. Sharing is caring, like the guy who is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch.
Cricky
The government funded the reaseach and continues to fund Toyotas R&D, so these crumbs are deserved by the public tax they have taken.
Triring
F A K E N E W S ! !
Toyota didn't receive a nickel in developing the technology.
Realization
Don't worry, Toyota will make it free once it's unusable :))
Strangerland
It’s closer to open source software, where it’s made open so that anyone can use it and contribute back to it, but this will be backed by a commercial organization that determines the direction of the project, as well as provided higher level services supporting the product.
goldeneagle
Aren’t patent exclusive for 20 years?
Cricky
Err not fake news, try some reaseach. The government has consistently given tax payer funds to Toyota. I know it's difficult to search without opposable thumbs but you can always smack your head on the keyboard.
Cricky
Sorry, about my last post it was rude and uncalled for. Toyota as a company has a symbiotic relationship with the LDP, thus Toyota has never paid tax as their justification is that their employees pay tax so as a company they are excempt. Meanwhile the government donates millions of yen in subsidies to bankroll the R&D of Toyota as its seen as a flagship for Japan. It's not a secret and not hidden. It's not facked news rather fact.
Triring
Again F A K E N E W S
Have you ever heard of corporate tax?
Any corporation that declares ordinary profit is required to submit corporate tax of 25.5% of that profit to the Japanese government.
Go see their balance sheet which is reported at the TSE. It shows how much they have paid tax.
In FY2018 Toyota paid 504,406,000,000 yen in tax.
And no the JP government does not donate subsidies to bankroll R&D for Toyota or any other companies for that matter which meant for the commercial market. If they did then other nations will file a complaint at WTO for unfair trade practice like the US against Airbus or the EU against Boeing. With that violation the US and EU can stop Toyota from exporting their products into the respective nations.
Samit Basu
Who cares about hybrids, it's dead outside of Japan.
sf2k
Meh, the future is electric cars
freedom-of-speech
Toyota is doing this traying to slow down the change to fully electrical cars, where they are so far behind other OEMs developing a fully electrical car.