BtC – Richard Heayes on Protecting Your Idea
Behind the CardboardSeries
Ellie Dix is joined by Richard Heayes, former design director for Hasbro and current co-founder of 7pips. They discuss the ins and outs of trademarking, idea infringement, and the benefits of freely sharing your ideas. Topics include trademark law, game submission portals, when and how to share your designs, and why it’s important the game design community remains free.
Episode Outline
0:00 Beginning of Show
0:47 End of Intro
2:26 To Keep or Share Ideas?
6:41 Gaming is a Different Industry
10:25 Game Submission Portals
18:05 Trademarks
24:34 Benefits of Not Tradmarking Games
28:16 Worst Part of Being a Designer
30:05 Best Part of Being a Designer
34:01 Outro
35:09 End of Show
In this Episode
Richard Heayes - https://7pips.org/, @RichHeayes
