Category Archives: Intellectual Property
Open Source Hardware
What I’ve been calling “Open Source Engineering” is more widely known as open source hardware, and associated to open hardware. Often, open source hardware is taken to mean electronics, but this is just because a large number of projects are electronic. Open source hardware refers to any product with a physical component. This is why [...]
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Choosing Open Source
I’ve been asked a lot by friends and family about if I have patented or protected my velomobile design in some way to stop “just anyone” coming along, making a copy and selling their own; and thus (so the story goes) stealing potential sales of my product. I tend to answer “No”, but the real [...]
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