Invention, intellectual property, and income
Assignment
Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
Prepare a summary slide (presentation.png, 1280x1024) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB)
in your root directory
Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
Prepare a summary slide (presentation.png, 1280x1024) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB)
in your root directory
Intellectual Property (IP)
According to Wikipedia, IP refers to creations of the intellect for which a monopoly is assigned to designated owners by law. The IP rights (IPRs) are the protections granted to the creators of IP, and include trademarks, copyright, patents, industrial design rights, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets. Artistic works including music and literature, as well as discoveries, inventions, words, phrases, symbols, and designs can all be protected as intellectual property. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property)
Types of intellectual property:
1. Patents
A form of right granted by the government to an inventor, giving the owner the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell, and importing an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention. It has to be new, not obvious and there needs to be an industrial applicability.
2. Copyright
A copyright gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time.
3. Industrial design rights
Sometimes called "design right", it protects the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. An industrial design can be a two- or three-dimensional pattern used to produce a product, industrial commodity or handicraft.
4. Trademarks
A recognizable sign, design or expression which distinguishes products or services of a particular trader from the similar products or services of other traders.
5. Trade secrets
A formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not generally known or reasonably ascertainable, by which a business can obtain an economic advantage over competitors or customers.
Patents or copyright
Patenting is something I have consider, however after finding out more and patents, I realise that a robotic arm is quite a common thing in the market for many years. The other consideration are the time and cost involve in doing so. Furthermore I think this project is at the level where it is worth a patent.
Copyright might be a good way to go, it will give interested parties access to the design and at the same time limit them from using the information in commercial.
Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
My final project is a stepper motor driven robotic arm.
I would like to share my work, code and invention with anyone in any form because The materials and sources by which this project develops are primarily based on open-source machine and softwares. .
Therefore, I choose the option:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
I would like my contribution to serve for educational, non-profit and can be improved.
Dreamed of possibilities and described how to make them probabilities
The possible applications are many .
You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Dissemination of my final project
For the basic design, I will set up a blog website to host the final project and more. Detail information will be published in GitHub for anyone interested to download.
When will I comerialise it
When the design and manufacturing of the project become more mature and the product become more useful in term of payload increase, better accuracy and repeatability. I would consider commercialise it. As for time frame, it might be sooner than later.
How steps would I take to commercialise it
1. Market survey on what are available and they selling points and prices.
2. Look at my design and highlight the advantages it has over current existing product and what are
the short comings.
3 Redesign my product to enhace its selling points like cost and features available.
4. Make a few more complete prototypes.
5. Go to a kickstarter and give it a go..... :)
