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
