Week 9. Group presentation and feedback(Intellectual Property)

Group presentation 9: Intellectual Property

Key points:

4 main types of intellectual property:

• Trademark => logos secrets, rights protection.Industrial and commercial use Words,images or smiles.
• Copyright => art work and writing.
• Design => physical design.
• Patent => process of function.

Renewal:

• Design - last up to 5-10 years. Fee $320
• Trademark - last up to 10 years. Fee $300
• Copyright - last up to 70 years. Fee N/A
• patent - last up to 20 years. Fee $300-$2300

Feedback:

• Good explanation and clear understanding for the topic.
• Clear images and texts
• Giving tips to other groups to protect their designs.
• Using the example of previous uni works and example of other project in the class (Blacktown project) 
• Using the video to show the comments

Improvement point:

• Reading notes from paper during the presetation.
• Better release to topic to own project.

How about our group for intellectual property:
For the our project, we already use the references from other people( on internet),So we cant apply the copyright.but we can apply the design for the driving model(set) and coding for the patent.

After presentation comments:

we all learning the intellectual property to protect self. and getting some useful ideas from russell.

This Week program:

After the last week working programs, I noticed we don't really need to use LED lights for the arduino board, the LED lights just for the signs, and we can check the coding by using serial-monitor. And after this week studio, we make the final decision to build the arudino board what is using 2 buttons and 1 potentiometer. The 2 buttons which control the acceleration and reverse, potentiometer for the steering wheel function. Elliott still working on the coding to make it working.

And Russell shows us a program called Fritzing. this program can make a blueprint for build the arduino board. and clearly shows the details. So I will use it to make the previous works more clearly and detailed, also for the final version of arduino board.


Here is the sketch in Fritzing:

First version of arduino board

1 potentiometer + 1 button + 1 flex sensor

Second version of arduino board

2 potentiometers + 1 button