inventor
Let an agent explain the inventor as a role, relay legal definitions, history and famous inventors from patent and historical sources, describe the design roles the registry aliases name, and distinguish inventors from engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and patent holders who are not inventors.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the inventor as a role, relay legal definitions, history and famous inventors from patent and historical sources, describe the design roles the registry aliases name, and distinguish inventors from engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and patent holders who are not inventors.
A person who creates a new device, process, composition or idea, recognised in patent law as the individual who conceives an invention, and by extension creators of new games, languages and other designed systems, including game designers, board game designers, video game designers and authors and language inventors such as the creators of Esperanto and constructed languages; inventors are creators and, in the registry, classed with engineers.
What it is for: Creating new things.
It can be explain the role; relay law and history; describe design roles; distinguish related roles.
Distinguishing features
Conception of novelty
Legal recognition
Broad creative sense
Historical figures
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a person.
Physical character
patent law: inventor is the person who conceives note - assignee may differ
US patents granted per year: about 300000 count - 2020s
Esperanto: 1887 year - L. L. Zamenhof
How it is recognised
Person who conceives an invention or new design
Patent inventor, game designer, board game designer, video game designer, video game author, language inventor
Engineers apply science; scientists discover; entrepreneurs commercialise; patent holders may be assignees
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
is recognised by - as the conceiver
is exemplified by - a prolific inventor
In practice
Families and kinds
patent inventors
independent and corporate inventors
game designers including board and video game designers
video game authors
language inventors
inventors in history such as Edison and Tesla
Standards and regulation
Patent laws defining inventorship
Employee invention laws
Copyright for game and language creations
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing inventor with patent owner
Registry aliases mixing patent inventors and game or language designers
Myths of lone inventors
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.inventor
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What an inventor is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is an inventor, and how does the role differ from engineer, scientist, entrepreneur and patent holder? definition
- Is the question about the role, patent law, history or a design role? boundary
Roles
Roles.
Roles
Roles.
- What are patent inventors, game designers, board and video game designers, video game authors and language inventors? definition
- Which entry fits the specific role? action
Law Law.
Regulation.
Inventorship
Inventorship.
Inventorship
Inventorship.
- How do patent laws define inventorship, joint inventors and employee inventions? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
AI
AI and inventorship.
AI
AI.
- What have courts decided about AI systems as inventors, with rulings attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Practice Practice.
Application.
Process
Invention process.
Process
Process.
- How do inventors move from idea to prototype and patent? provenance
- Which entry fits invention? action
Design
Game and language design.
Design
Design.
- How do game designers and language inventors work? provenance
- Which entry fits game design? action
Context History and culture.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- Who are famous inventors, and how has invention been organised over time? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of technology? action
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How are inventors portrayed and celebrated? provenance
- Which entry fits inventor s day? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should game designer and language inventor be separate primary entries?
- How should patent and historical sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming design roles; should they be split off?