According to Wikipedia: An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process. It may be an improvement upon a machine or product or a new process for creating an object or a result. An invention that achieves a completely unique function or result may be a radical breakthrough. Such works are novel and not obvious to others skilled in the same field. An inventor may be taking a big step in success or failure.

 

As such, along the years, many inventions have been trying to be protected just like any other property, so for protecting your intellectual property there is a specific article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 27, wich provides for the right to benefit from the protection of moral and material interests resulting from authorship of scientific, literary or artistic productions.

 

As much as I want my project to be an open source I also can't look away to the option of patentability. I find this project to be well suited for the process of patentability and have full support from the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla to help me with the process.

 

From the decision to make a patent to protect this project it rises the issue that now the project contains sensitive data and must be protected before unveiling it in this page as a video.

 

For dissaminating this project I want to make it a marketable product, I'm thinking of selling either the plans and files to cut and DIY or ship all the pieces to assembly, it could have a full webpage like "forum" style" with videos of the assembly process and "how to use", people sharing designs and patterns so others can use.

 

At this point in time I already made the patent request with the help of the University and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) already made a patent viability reaserch, confirming that indeed the loom mechanism can be patented.

 

Now that the patent process has begun it is the IMPI's job to do all the paperwork so a patent can be issued, it is expected to be released somewhere midyear 2019. After this the mechanism can be made public.

 

The folio for the patent request is MX/E/2018/044143

I chose patent over licensing mainly because the IDIT is interested in developing their patenting proces with the IMPI, so they support projects like this with all the investment and paperwork, also I think appearing in a patent as inventor is really useful for a mechanical engineer in his resume.