Prototypes and Patents

Year 8 STEAM

1. Prototypes and Patents

2. Prototypes

3. Reef Design Lab

4. https://www.reefdesignlab.com/

5. NIKE

6. https://about.nike.com/en-GB/magazine/creating-the-unreal-how-nike-made-its-wildest-air-footwear-yet

7. Patents

8. A patent is a legally enforceable right for a device, substance, method or process. For your application to be successful, your invention must be new, useful and inventive or innovative.

9. Under Australian law, there are two types of patents available: the standard patent and the innovation patent.

10. O nce granted, a patent allows the holder to exclude anyone else from using their patented invention in Australia for a prescribed maximum period of time: up to 20 years for standard patents and up to eight years for innovation patents ( IP Australia , 2018).

11. Images from: Jean-Marie Donat, Gadgets, Games and Gizmos, 2017