This week is about Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income.
Invention
research, development
ready, fire, aim
traffic, pain
ecosystems
Intellectual property
patents
- types
- utility (20 years from filing)
- design (15 years from grant)
- search
- disclosure
- private
- public
US: 1 year to file most international: can't file - defensive
- provisional
- 1 year to convert
- included in term
- full
- teaching
- specification, claims
- types:
composition, method, apparatus, manufacture
- examination
- novel, non-obvious, useful
- (im)possibility
- genes, business processes, software
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
- nationalization
- EPO
- precedence:
first to file vs first to invent - maintenance
- litigation
- defense
- identify infringement
- barriers to infringement
- troll, NPE
- ~ $100, $1k, $10k, $100k
copyrights
- original works of authorship
- designs, software, circuits, mask works
- reproduce, modify, distribute, perform, display
- secured on creation
- notice of copyright
- registration
- lifetime + 70 years
- licenses:
open-source vs free, Creative Commons, GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X11, Apache, fab lab
trademarks
- establishment
- registration
- protection
Income
- motivations:
financial, cultural, social - sources
products, consumables, licenses, advertising, platforms, infrastructure, services: operation, customization, education, research, impact - types
- for-profit:
sole proprietor, partnership, limited liability company (LLC), corporation - non-profit
501(c)(3) - hybrid
- for-profit:
- funding:
VC, incubator, angel, friends & family, crowdsource, loan, purchase commitment, bootstrap - lifecycle
- (failure of) business plan
- (need for) management team
- (problems in) scaling
- (pressure for) exit
accelerator/incubator/manufacturer
- PCH, Highway 1
- Flextronics, Flex
- Dragon, Bolt
- SEEED, HAX
- Factory For All
- Fab Lab Made
