Is Elon Musk's SpaceX Protected Without Patents?
March 27, 2013 at 14:02 PM EDT
Last October, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA ) founder Elon Musk said that his other firm, SpaceX (a space transport company), does not have any interest in holding patents. "We have essentially no patents in SpaceX," Musk told Wired . "Our primary long-term competition is in China—if we published patents, it
