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Environment & Energy

tinrobot

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3. Open only until 2020 at the moment

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 05:18 PM

Jan 2015

Patents linked to fuel cell vehicles will be available until the end of 2020, whereas patents related to hydrogen production and supply will remain open indefinitely.

I guess five years is long enough to know whether this is going to take off...

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Toyota pushes hydrogen fuel cell cars with open patent portfolio [View all] Lodestar Jan 2015 OP

When Toyota makes a car nationalize the fed Jan 2015 #1

I wonder how much the oil companies are paying to push these cars. Gregorian Jan 2015 #2

Open only until 2020 at the moment tinrobot Jan 2015 #3