[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by davidfv

I think FIRST encourages teams to be entrepreneurial in what they do as a team. I was wondering if teams have Trademarked Logos, words, sayings as part of their team and if teams have any patents.

We are looking to Trademark some things this year, but a lot of pushback from the school who are basically saying it would not be GP to hold on to something.

What do you wish to accomplish with a trademark that the standard protection of copyright on creative works does not already accomplish? Is your image really going to be stolen by another team? Are you going to wish to go through legal proceedings if this does happen? I just don't see the benefit.

I fully support that if they invent something they should seek a patent.

Thanks in advance.

Design patents aside (which are less about preventing copying of mechanisms and more about specific products, e.g. an entire robot), there's not a lot if anything in FRC that's been "invented" here and patentable. Most ideas are derivative.