18. Invention, Intellectual Property and Business Models

Procedure:
0. Assignment Go
1. Licence Classification Go
2. Summarise 2 Kinds Go
3. Future Opportunities Of My Project Go
4. Plan Dissemination Of My Final Project Go
5. Create A Summary Slide Presentation Go
6. Create A Video Clip Presentation Go

0. Assignment

Create and document a license for your final project.

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.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Recognise the range of licenses available

Formulate future opportunities

HAVE YOU...

... Summarised two kinds of licences and explained why you chose one.

...Imagined and outlined possibilities and described how to make them probabilities.

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1. Licence Classification + Example

Patent

A patent is intended for large investments and maintenance. A good way to start with the patent is before you haven't finished with it, having a provisional patent to make sure at least for one year it is yours. After completing the work, you can finish it and go for the 'Full-Patent'.

This 'Full-Patent' is more detailed, having the specifications (explaining what it does, how it works, what it is, etc), and the claims for it (what the patent covers).

Then this goes through the 'Patent Examination Process': minimum for it to become yours - needs to be something new, non-obvious and useful.

Utility Patents vs Design Patents: Utility patents have more value than Design Patents as it patents the way it functions, and not the way it looks like.

Important

-Patents DON'T protect you: it gives you access to court and litigate.
-If you have a patent, it does not mean it works.
-Public Disclosure: you make it public so somebody else can't claim it.
-Global Patents Don't Exist
-Get it 'on file' and create a Provisional Patent - it is more important who submits the idae rather than the person that has the idea.

Need to mention:

'PCT' - Patent Coorperation Treaty - Involve countries all around the world. Still, you need to nationalise it on the country you want to sell it.
EPO (European Patent Office) Go
Patents USA: USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office Go
Google Patent Search Go

Copyright

It is for a creative work (music, movie, engineering, design, etc) - you are the AUTHOR.
Copyright work handle:
-reproduction,
-modification,
-distribution,
-performance,
-displaying,

Need To Mention:

Copyright Office US Go

Trademark

-Very different from copyright - For commercial brands and names of something.

Open-Source

You freely share the source code, with or without payment:

Creative Commons
GNU (General Public Licence)
BSD License

Free

It is just free.

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2. Summarise 2 Kinds

I am going to investigate deeply Copyright and Open-Source (Creative Commons) and see which one of them fits best to my project.

Creative Commons Licences- Open-Source:

It is a licence that lets anybody in the world to reproduce, modify, distribute, perform and display the work without any commercial purposes.

The only obligation is to give attribution to its author.

It has 4 types of licence, by default is the first one:

-Attribution: your work can be used by anyone by giving you credit the way you request, by asking you permission first.

-Attribution: your work can be used by anyone by giving you credit the way you request, by asking you permission first.

-Non-Commercial Licence: anybody can use it without any commercial purposes, except if they ask you first.

-No Derivatives: You let others copy, distribute, display and perform only original copies of your work. If they want to modify your work, they must get your permission first.

Creative Commons Website

Important:

no one can have an exclusive licence.

Copyright

Copyright gives the author the essential rights for creative work:
-reproduction,
-modification,
-distribution,
-performance,
-displaying,
of the piece that has been protected.

If someone want to do anything of the above, they must contact the author and ask for permission.

Register process of an authentic work:

It is not necessary to register to obtain the copyright, the only obligation someone has in this situation is to add a © to the work being published. Both way you will be able to claim that is yours, you can go to court.

It has a good value commercially, and the author may have an exclusive deal with anyone (contrary to a CC licence).

As my Final Project is a non-profitable a does not have a commercial purpose, the best licence is to have a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence so anyone can have access to it and learn all the lessons I have done while making it, crediting for my creation.

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3. Future Opportunities Of My Project

My project is an exclusive project for myself, without having a commercial purpose. As well, it is not a common project as not many people have modified their own architectural table. Therefore, I would like my creation to have a CC Non-Commercial Licence so it can be distributed to anyone and use this information to improve their architectural environment.

Although most architectural plans are done on the computer nowadays, drawing by hand is still considered the best way to think and meditate.

The future opportunities of this project is to have a collaboration between people that really want to improve their workplace and work together. The ideas from this collaborative way of working may lead to new ways of creating, specially by using new technology.

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4. Plan Dissemination Of My Final Project

Prototype

First I need to complete the first prototype where the main functions are done. The prototype should be able to move the lamp without touching the object, by using the two sonars and a stepper motor.

So far, I have completed the physical object, but still working on the electronic parts.

I need to design a two new boards so I can have two sonars and serial communication pins connected to one of them, and then have another board to have a 12 volt supply voltage and serial communication connected to it.

For the input board with 2 sonars, program it to make sure it moves to the direction I want depending on the sensor I activate, and preventing errors by accidentally activating both sonars at the same time.

On the other hand, for the output board, I need the mcu to know where is exactly positioned on the axis. This will prevent errors.

When both boards are connected, check the sent data corresponds with the motor's speed.

Then, testing if they work together and correctly in all situation.

Once all the electronic design and production has been done successfully done, integrate it to the prototype.

Imagined and outlined possibilities and described how to make them probabilities.

The Real Final Project

Once the prototype has been done correctly, the development of the project is based in three important things:

enlarging the lamp's axis, making sure it works correctly with long distances (all the coding and programming has been done correctly).
-a well designed finished wooden work.
-adaptation of the slider to horizontal and diagonal position

Once all of this has been done, the next step is to add an atmospheric light for the board. The result will be to have two types of light: atmospheric light that are places on the perimeter of the wooden frame + the already done moving lamp.

It is a long process, where the most important moment is to have a working prototype. This covers all kind of disciplines aligned together in one object.

The final product is a longer process, but my goal is to finish it after the fabacademy finishes.

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5. Create A Summary Slide Presentation

For my slide, I used Adobe Photoshop and the pictures from all the different disciplines I have included in my final project.



The idea is to create a 1280x1024 pixels slide and manipulate all the different pictures beforehand. Then, I include them on to the presentation and use a very important command on Photoshop: the mask.



(bottom right command)

Then export as .png at 72ppp and ready!

Final Slide:



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6. Create A Video Clip Presentation

Adobe Premier is the program I have used to create my video for my final project.



The order of appearance is as follows:
-few slices presenting who am I and from what fablab I come from
-Explaining The Idea: my workplace and how I am going to change it
-First pictures of the prototype: global overview
-Input devices
-Output Devices
-How it moves
-Me activating the network by moving it without touching it.

Next to Adobe Premiere, I have used as well Adobe Photoshop to create all the slides and improve all the pictures.



To create the video, I did not use that many commands. The most important one is the one that 'cuts' the video in two different pieces:





The rest is putting next to each other the different pictures and videos used and export it. Not really difficult.

The result:



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