TESLA PATENT HYPE

TESLA Patents... This blog post  started in response to conversations I  had within the comments sections of Electrek.  Typically Patent applications and Patent issue are confused.    Elon Musk says on "Battery Day"  'we came up with a tabless battery ' ' this is quite hard to do, nobody's done it before"  and his 'followers'  then say ' Tesla has a patent", without questioning.  Elon Musk does not mention that Tesla's  Claim of inventorship of the Tabless Battery architecture has already been rejected by Examiners.  Before a patent issues Examiners scrutinize the Application and often refuse an Issue because the claims are either " not novel'  or  "  make no inventive step"  over prior art.[ termed patent rejection].  So, I started to check the Tesla applications to see what has actually received a patent. To do this does require some basic skills which most commentators wont have and so this page hopes to...