Here is the quote: They don’t even file patents, Musk says, because “we try not to provide a recipe by which China can copy us and we find our inventions coming right back at us.”
Although ironically the Germans did file a patent on an anti-handling bomb fuse that they subsequently used in WWII
Here is the quote: They don’t even file patents, Musk says, because “we try not to provide a recipe by which China can copy us and we find our inventions coming right back at us.”