19. Invention, intellectual property and income

This week’s aim is to learn about protecting your idea and how to avoid people misusing your idea/product for their personal gain. There are many tyapes of patents for the same. The aim was to learn about them and chooses which one is right for us.

What is a patent?

A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling, and importing an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent

Advantages of Licencing

Not all inventors want to make or sell products or designs. Patent licensing lets you profit from the rights to your invention. You can collect royalties from sales.

Disadvantages of Patent Licensing

Types of Licensing

These are some of the types of open source licenses.

Source: http://archive.fabacademy.org/2018/labs/fablabcept/students/adhitya-ss/week-19.html

After exmining everything, I decided to go with the creative commons licensing since I was working on a product and it gave the better freedem in choosing the type of license.

Types of CC Licenses

There are 6 main CC licenses to choose from:

Source : http://discourse.col.org/t/what-are-the-different-types-of-cc-licenses/62

Getting the license

Once you know which license to get, got to https://creativecommons.org/choose/ and start filling out the details. This is the page that will be displayed.

patenting

Start by answering the questions which will decide the type of license you need.

It will display the type of license you’ve selected.

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Next is entering the title for your product, your personal info, website address for the product you’re licensing and reference(if any) from where your product is inspired.

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Once everything is entered, the screen will show the html code for your license which you can copy at the end of your webpage.

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This should display the licensing information at the bottom of the page like shown below.

Creative Commons License
2D chair by Dhruv Thakker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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