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Reference Frame
To discuss the legal implications of inventions, let us consider the following fiction:
- Mary, inventor.
- Bill, registration office.
- Jason, producer.
- Kate, consumer.
Mary invents a new product, by example a new device allowing people to recycle efficiently their used water. She gives it the name "my idea" (represented by a thought cloud in the below diagram). Before proposing her invention to the public, she protects her property by a patent. She submits an invention file to record to Bill (the Registration Office). After some minor corrections, the file is recorded and her invention is then protected! Afterwards Mary has to decide how the producers and consumers will use her invention. She chooses a license allowing the exploitation of her invention to only one partner. She decides to leave the production and the distribution to a company specialized in the equipment of swimming pools. For this purpose, she contacts Jason who has a factory manufacturing pumps. His business is perfectly adapted to the production of the Mary's device. Jason has also developed an international distribution network. After agreeing on the rights of each one, Jason starts the assembly lines and the marketing campaign. A Jason's sale representative contacts Kate, our consumer model. She lives in a region where water is rare. She is convinced that Mary's device will improve significantly her comfort. Thus she decides to buy the product distributed by Jason. She also agrees to leave maintenance exclusively to Jason's company.
The key concepts are pictured in the following diagram:
fig. 1 - the legal relationships around an invention.