The Times: Increasing collaboration in car patents market

While car manufacturers are protecting more of their commercial secrets, they are also going public to collaborate on some key design strategies it is a ferocious era of development for the car industry. The rise of electric cars and hydrogen fuel cells, and the race to build connected and driverless vehicles, are leading to a transformation in how and when ideas are protected.

​General Motors (GM) chief executive Mary Barra predicts the car sector will “change more in the next five to ten years than it has in the last fifty”, and the US Center for Automotive Research says the trade is effectively becoming a software industry.


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