Nikola Corporation (NKLA)

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MASTER AGREEMENT - TRACTORS

This Master Agreement -Tractors (“Agreement”) is made as of February 22, 2018 by Anheuser-Busch, LLC (“AB”), with offices at One Busch Place, St. Louis, Missouri 63118-1852, and Nikola Motor Company, LLC (“Vendor”), with offices at 1130 S 3800 W, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, Utah 84104.

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Anheuser-Busch orders 800 hydrogen trucks from Nikola
Last update: May 8, 2018

After filing a patent infringement lawsuit against Tesla Motors last week, Nikola Motor Company has announced an order from Anheuser-Busch for 800 hydrogen-electric powered semi-trucks.

With more orders of the kind and a successful lawsuit against rival company Tesla Motors, Nikola could really strengthen its positions in the market. In a lawsuit filed against Tesla in U.S. District Court in Arizona, Nikola asks for $2 billion in damages claiming Tesla infringed on three of the company’s patents, reports Digital Trends.

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/3/17314606/anheuser-busch-budweiser-hydrogen-trucks-zero-emission-startup-nikola

U.S. Patent Office Rules In Favor Of Nikola In Lawsuit Against Tesla Semi
APR 22, 2020 at 3:07PM

We wanted to check precisely what Milton was talking about, and we found Paper 7 of IPR2019-01646. That is a petition Tesla filed at the USPTO to question the patent's validity. Tesla does not think Nikola could even register its designs.
The ‘084 patent refers to the U.S. Patent 10,077,084, for the door design. Apparently, Tesla did not dispute the patents for the windscreen and bodywork design on USPTO. That is probably something exclusive to the lawsuit. It is filed in the District Court in Arizona under the code 2:18-cv-01344 and we did not manage to read it in full, nor to know its current status. In case you can help us with that, please get in touch.

The USPTO decision may prove to be decisive to the lawsuit result. If Nikola’s patent is valid and it manages to prove the Semi has copied it, the best-case scenario for Tesla is paying royalties to keep the Semi as it is. The other extreme is having to redesign it and also pay compensation for Nikola.

https://insideevs.com/news/414082/uspto-backed-nikola-against-tesla/