[FabNotes35]第十八周：发明，专利和收入

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

课程资源

• Fab Academy 2016 课表
• Week18 课程视频
• Week18 课程大纲
• 我的英文笔记 Gitbook
• 公众号文章列表