Inventions Intellectual Property and Buisness Models
Dissemination of Project
For this project we have no intent of marketing it or distributing it whatso ever. However if we were to do so we would work off the basis that it is a modular project where we could sell different components to be added on so the user could buy whatever componenet they wanted and just add it to the I2C bus. However with our current plan I intend to propably get a git hub repo set up so people can just take my designs and code and adapt and use them to their own need since a lot of companies now are ripping people off with simmilar products but for ludicrous prices.
In addition this week we had Professor CC Chapman from the buisness department here at Wheaton college come talk to us about marketing, types of companies, patents, and all that stuff. We then ended with making a slide and critiquing it.
For this project we have no intent of marketing it or distributing it whatso ever. However if we were to do so we would work off the basis that it is a modular project where we could sell different components to be added on so the user could buy whatever componenet they wanted and just add it to the I2C bus. However with our current plan I intend to propably get a git hub repo set up so people can just take my designs and code and adapt and use them to their own need since a lot of companies now are ripping people off with simmilar products but for ludicrous prices.
In addition this week we had Professor CC Chapman from the buisness department here at Wheaton college come talk to us about marketing, types of companies, patents, and all that stuff. We then ended with making a slide and critiquing it.
Patent
We decided to go with the Creative Common Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This license, seen at the bottom of the page has differnent symbols with different meanings. The first is the CC symbol which just meast that this is a Creative Commons Patent. The second is a person which is the Attribution symbol meaning that people are free to use my work as long as they cite us. Then there is the reverse symbol which means that if people are using our work they must do so under the premise that they use our same license this is to avoid any work we made being kept private since that seems scummy and would prefer the information created from our work to be always kept publicly available however they can remix change edit improve and do what they want to our work else than that as long as their work is the same license. The other choice of symbol here was and equal sign which meant that people could not adapt our work in any way and must use it just as is, this felt stifling to improvements and as a enthusiastic user of open source know that people adapting others work is how we have the tools we do today. Finally a nother symbol we could have added was a crossed out dollar sign which meant that our work could not be commercialized, well we don't care if someone wants to make money off of our work best luck to them may be even better since then they would need to also share their work and keep it public allowing for further improvements.
We decided to go with the Creative Common Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This license, seen at the bottom of the page has differnent symbols with different meanings. The first is the CC symbol which just meast that this is a Creative Commons Patent. The second is a person which is the Attribution symbol meaning that people are free to use my work as long as they cite us. Then there is the reverse symbol which means that if people are using our work they must do so under the premise that they use our same license this is to avoid any work we made being kept private since that seems scummy and would prefer the information created from our work to be always kept publicly available however they can remix change edit improve and do what they want to our work else than that as long as their work is the same license. The other choice of symbol here was and equal sign which meant that people could not adapt our work in any way and must use it just as is, this felt stifling to improvements and as a enthusiastic user of open source know that people adapting others work is how we have the tools we do today. Finally a nother symbol we could have added was a crossed out dollar sign which meant that our work could not be commercialized, well we don't care if someone wants to make money off of our work best luck to them may be even better since then they would need to also share their work and keep it public allowing for further improvements.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.