6.1 Week18 Note

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
• 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