Week 18:
Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Assignment:
Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
Prepare a summary slide and Video Clip in your root directory

Invention:
The idea of an automatic cat feeder it not an original idea (even though when I was trying to think of a problem to solve I had no idea they existed!).  I am thrilled that through this course I have learned how to create something that will solve a problem that I have and make my life easier.  I am also excited for my work to hopefully help others in solving a similar problem for them.   

Intellectual Property:
After doing some research on the different options on how to protect my creative information I found the https://creativecommons.org/ to be best for me.  There are a few types of licensing under the creative commons bubble that can also be combined for unique choices that are easily applicable to many different situations.  They are Share-alike, Non-commercial, Attribution and No Derivative Works.

Here is what I found from the https://creativecommons.org/:

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/
https://creativecommons.org/choose/




https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Kitty Matic by Kayla Proctor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

I have also researched the MIT license and agree that this will help protect myself and is a way to share my work with others. 

The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) <2017> <Kayla Proctor>

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.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Dissemination Plan:
Step 1: Look at what other products similar to mine have done and compare my product to theirs.
Step 2: Think of a company that might want to license the product (The Kitty Matic). Then meet with them to see what the benifits of this route would be.
Step 3: Test the product in the market and create a survey for the target market to complete. Determine retail price.
Step 4: Make any changes to the design that might benifit the product or change cost to make it less expensive to produce and increase profit.
Step 5: Look at margins of cost/retail and licensing the product to another company.
Step 6: If I choose to create my own company go on kickstarter or gofundme to raise money for the company. I would also look for investors.