ADITYA BHATT

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Week 18 : Inventional,Intellectual property and Business models

 

Assignment

 

This week assignment is about invention, intellectual property, and income. The goal of this assignment is to develop a plan for dissemination of our final project.

 

Invention-

My gesture controlled robot is an open source, friendly and functional robot. It has two main parts,

a) The transmitter (gesture controlled)

b) The reciever. I have implemented all the skills learned during my course to the design and frame work. I have not made the project too much complicated by adding more sensors so that any layman can also reproduce what I have made. I am very much interested in spreading my experience to students of my age and share the skills I have leaned.

What is Intellectual Property?

Intellectual property refers to the creations of the mind ,inventions; literary and artistic works; and symbols, names, and images that are used in commerce and other educational purposes. Intellectual property is divided into two categories:

1)Industrial Property

 

a)Patents

 

b)Trademarks

 

c)Industrial designs

 

d)Geographical Indications

 

2)Copyright

 

It covers literary works,films,music etc.

 

What is a Patent?

 

WIPO(World Intellectual Property Organaization) says It is exclusive grant provided for an invention or process that provides a new way of doing something or that offers technical solution to a problem.Patents provide incentives to individuals by recognizing their creativity and offering the possibility of material reward for their marketable inventions. These incentives encourage innovation, which in turn enhances the quality of human life.

 

An industrial design right (sometimes called "design right") protects the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. An industrial design consists of the creation of a shape, configuration or composition of pattern or color, or combination of pattern and color in three-dimensional form containing aesthetic value. An industrial design can be a two- or three-dimensional pattern used to produce a product, industrial commodity or handicraft.

 

What is a Trademark?

 

A trademark is a sign capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one enterprise from those of other enterprises. Trademarks date back to ancient times when craftsmen used to put their signature or “mark” on their products.

 

Example : Product names, logos etc

 

Licensing

 

List of Licenses that can be used or taken by any individual/ company/group:

 

MIT License

 

Apache License

 

Creative Common (CC)

 

GNU General Public License (GPL)

 

GNU General Public license

 

It is the most common used license in Open-Source Projects , Basically it allows users to copy ,modify and distribute software also it is a strong copy left license and gives wide range of rights to users . I am listing the main features . If you want to use GPL license in your project you need to add some specific infoarmations on your code also need to add license file .

 

1)Copy Software

 

2)Make Modifications

 

3)Distribute Modified Software

 

4)Charge a Fee to Distribution Software

 

MIT LIcense

 

This is the shortest and popular open source liceses it is very loose and more permssive than any other other licenses , It is not a strong copyleft license it is permissive and it not grants patent rights .

 

1)Copy Software

 

2)Make Modifications

 

3)You Can give for Free or Paid

 

4)The only restriction is that code need to accompanied by the license agreement.

 

Creative Common license:

 

CC is a copyright license that allow the free distribution and author can choose what it can be used for(commercial or others) even though it can be share,use and rebuild the same.

FINAL PROJECT PROGRESS-

 

what tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?

I have  completed my 3-D printing and fabrication part. Electronics is also almost over. The only task left is coding(The most challenging) and then final testing.

 

what questions need to be resolved?

The question I want to resolve is the simplicity of the project. I want to make it such way that even students of my age can make this project and even modify it.

 

what have you learned?

I love experimenting and making new stuff as I am a maker and it is my passion so the roller coaster ride so far has been great. I learned a lot of things about digital fabrication from my batch mates tapan and rudrapal.

 

Income

This is an open source project so that people and make and modify my designs and plans. As a maker I also feel that there can be a lot of other improvistions to the project such as adding spying features and syncronizing IOT system to it.