Invention, Intellectual Property and Business Models

Format: Lecture

Assignment:

• Prepare a crowdfunding campaign
  • Create and document a license for your final project.
  • Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successfully completing this class students will be capable of:

• Recognise the range of licenses available
• Formulate future opportunities

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
    • 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