Nikola Sued Tesla for $2 Billion. Its Truck Couldn't Drive. #Shorts

About this episode

In 2018, a company named after Nikola Tesla sued a company named after Nikola Tesla. Nikola said the Tesla Semi copied its design and claimed more than $2 billion. The patents it sued on were design patents for the Nikola One's fuselage, windshield and side door. A design patent protects how something looks, not whether it works. The Nikola One never drove on its own power. The full story is on the channel. Patents shown: US D811,944 (Fuselage) · US D811,968 (Wrap windshield) · US D816,004 (Side door) · US D814,357 (Semi-truck) · US 10,207,751 (Motor gearbox assembly) Credits Photo of Trevor Milton (2017): Hans Andreas Starheim / ZERO, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trevor_Milton.jpg Portrait of Nikola Tesla (c. 1890): Napoleon Sarony, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Patent drawings: USPTO. Court documents: U.S. federal courts. Music and sound design: original. Not affiliated with Tesla, Inc., Nikola Corporation or Hyroad Energy. Strategy education, not legal advice. ipCapital Group. #Nikola #TrevorMilton #TeslaSemi #DesignPatent #Patents