Intellectual property 3D Bicycle parking design

1. Introduction

In many countries the legislatures have drafted and made into law some guidelines on intellectual property. This is as result of the benefits that this aspect draws to companies, inventors, and business people. Intellectual property can be best defined as the intangible conceptions of the human mind that encompasses patents, trademarks, as well as copyrights. It is basically a grouping of property (Greenhalgh and Rogers, 2010). The law of intellectual property gives the owner of the property exclusive rights to exploit and benefit from his creation since it has commercial value attached to it (Ponce et al., 2016)

Therefore, protection of intellectual property is for the purposes of encouraging people to think and come up with new thoughts that will benefit all as the owner enjoys monopoly of exploitation. There is a very pertinent need to come up with a good protection plan by the original creator for efficiency and complete enjoyment of the intellectual ownership rights (Roberts, 2016). This report discusses the 3D bicycle parking concept that will serve as a solution to parking of bicycles and enhanced use of available space for parking. Due to the indiscriminate challenges posed by bicycles, one being parking, the thought of 3D will improve this issue. Included in this report is the practicability of this concept. In addition to this, the report will discuss appropriate issues on intellectual property like the digital copyrights and the available solution for their protection

 

2. Competitors of the bicycle parking concept

Currently, there are several ways of bicycle parking. However, issues of illegal parking are still very high in many countries in the current dispensation across the globe. This means that new ideas on parking have a niche in the market that they can serve and actually make people’s lives better. The 3D technique is a unique design that will be both time and space effective. In the current bicycle parking industry, people use the following bike rack designs for parking. First, there is the U-rack (also called Sheffield rack), which is a simple stand mostly used in the urban areas as it takes small space (Cochran, 2017). With this design, a relatively larger space is left for the pedestrians. Another competitor is the wave design, also called serpentine. This is also a kind of U- rack design which has been extended. With the serpentine design, it holds more bicycles (Yu, 2007). The limitation of this design is that it only links with the frame of the bicycle by one point instead of two. The main challenge associated with this kind or rack is that the bicycles are prone to falling very easily (Cochran, 2017).

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