Pressure Sensor Variation Brain-Storming
One of the challenges in an open-source project compared with a commercial approach, is that you don't have budget for lawyers to defend against (often frivolous) patent claims. However, this can be more than offset by using a basic knowledge of patent law. Specifically, if you talk publically about something, no one can go and patent that, or anything that can be obviously inferred from that in any jursidiction thereafter. This is because the public discussion forms part of the "prior art" once it is made public, e.g., by being described in this blog post. Unlike when you want to file a patent, this disclosure doesn't even need to be "reduced to practice". There are a lot of names for this approach, but let's just call it Patent Spoiling. The idea is to make sure that you have plenty of freedom of movement in innovation, rather than have someone come and patent all the way around you, so that you can't change or improve anything. So the purpose ...