17. Invention, Intelectual Property and Income

Invention

nvention is the process of creating a new device, method, composition, or process that has not previously existed. It involves the combination of ideas, concepts, and techniques to produce something novel and useful. Inventions can range from simple tools to complex technological advancements and often result from scientific research, creative thinking, and problem-solving.

Intellectual Property

Creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, symbols, names, and images used in commerce. IP is protected by law, allowing creators and inventors to earn recognition or financial benefits from what they invent or create. The main types of intellectual property include:

1. Patents
2. Trademarks
3. Copyrights
4. Trade Secrets
5. Industrial Designs
6. Geographical Indications

Income

Creating income from intellectual property involves leveraging the legal rights granted to you to generate revenue.

1. Licensing: Permit others to use your intellectual property in exchange for a fee, which can be either a one-time payment or ongoing royalties.
2. Sales: Transfer full ownership of the intellectual property to another entity.
3. Commercialization: Develop and market products based on the intellectual property, directly selling them to consumers or businesses.
4. Enforcement: Take legal action against unauthorized use of your intellectual property to seek damages or settlements, thereby protecting its value and deterring infringement.

Dissemination Plan

This project is a very basic prototype of an alternative control for rc planes, and can even be used to control planes in software simulator. Since it does not have the bases yet to become and actual product with some form or standard, licensing it at this moment is not in my plans. A very quick way to do it is with Creative Commons.

It is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works avaliable for others to bulid upon legally and to share. As the RC and software simulators are a big community, my project simply aims as a base for people to create and expand their experience in this areas by creating and customizing their versions of this prototype.

Future Posibliities

In the future, I wlil continue to work on both projects; the RC plane and the controls. I believe it has a lot of potential both commercially and non commercially. But I want to modify both projects with better quality production and materials. Some itterations I wlil possibly make:

1. Test and adjust the plane to make it fly worthy.
2. Add a real time camera and VR headset to make this project even more inmersive
3. Change the materials and structure of the airplane
4. Adjust the sensors to have more accurate input by the user
5. Add more interactive functions like buttons, switches and functioning rudder pedals

Have a better quality bulid for the whole control system.