Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

The work of hydrobot is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

on a general note the difference between copyrights and patents is that Copyrights are validated by declaring that they exist- usually for creating rather than technical work. Patents on the otherhand are technical; they are filed reviewed and approved or disapproved. Open source copyright licenceses differ from being free. Although files can be downloaded for example people; as is the case with Arduino rather buy the product and contribute to the possibilites of the product.

|Invention

The hydrobot; is a system that uses other tools common in the open-source community such as typical cnc movement; persitaltic pumping etc. However; the application set for this project are unique and could potentially harm a dying trade if taken in the wrong context. The goal of this project is to provoke designers of the future and supply the fab lab community with more tools and ideas for making but also to help the existing trade to take their craftsmanship further with the help of parametric tools. Thus spending more time on design rather than repetitive procedures.

|Intellectual property

Although i would like to make the tools designed; open-source; particularly where seen useful in other fields. This project as a whole would need to be protected commercially. Having said that i would also like the tools to be continuously improved and developed. The european union have developed funds that help with costs for intellectual property.

"The process entails doing IP checks. Through this check a scientific and validation opinion of the technology is provided by experts in the field with particular specialisation in IP, namely qualified Patent Attorney and IP lawyers which have the relevant academic background and experience in the relevant scientific discipline.The first task that is covered by an IP Check is the understanding of the research and innovation proposal in order to be able to search the relevant keywords related to the purpose, use and composition of the invention within the relevant sectors and obtain the pertinent information relating to the proposal in question. This is done through the searching of keywords on various sources in order to find potential class/subclasses. In this regard keywords or phrases used include common terms describing the invention and its function, effect, end-product, structure, and use. As a result a list of applicable patents and published applications would be obtained.Subsequently, the IP Check would go onto another level and access the full-text of the resulting relevant existing patents and published applications. This is done by reviewing all claims, specifications and drawings of documents retrieved for relevancy, as well as all the relevant references. This step is rather crucial as it would determine the extent of protecting the idea since it would establish whether any information about the proposal has already been disclosed, whether this proposal is a completely new idea or whether the idea is building on something which has already been developed and/or protected. "

The Malta council for Science and technology

There are 150 countries in the Patent Coopertation Treaty(including Malta and Spain) and in Europe there is the European Patent Office which provide for the protection of patents on an international and regional basis respectively.

On the otherhand Creative Commons is about preserving credit and promoting distribution. You sign up for, in effect, a limitation of the automatic copyright on original work. The purpose is to allow distribution among and collaboration with people you may never know or meet.
I believe that a project like this would be sucesful if developed more successfully in a privatefab lab and given contribution through users over time.
license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

other similar liscences are The MIT license; this is a very simple license applicable to software that simply requests a user to quote the source of the material. It states: "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

Fab Lab license. Simply acknowledgement of contribution, this license states: "(c) holder date This work may be reproduced, modified, distributed, performed, and displayed for any purpose, but must acknowledge "project name". Copyright is retained and must be preserved. The work is provided as is; no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability." Its goal is to leave room for commercialization while protecting the freedom to share the work.

|Income

Income of this project could be developed overtime though workshops. Such as those of Anda. There is also the oportunity of collaborating with designers to create custom patterned tiles or with the traditional trade adding tools to their pallette through digital techtonics and thus challange design outputs. Products could be DIY or fab lab made