Fwd: patents around 3D printing

[Bryan Bishop]

From: Matt Maier <blueb...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Subject: [Discuss] patents around 3D printing
To: The Open Source Hardware Association Discussion List
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What do you guys think about stuff like this?
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,201914,201954

It seems that Mr. Pettis is trying to patent the idea of a socially
networked 3D print server.

On the one hand, I'm like, if it's a novel idea then sure, go get a
patent and license your heart out. On the other hand, I feel like
everything in the patent is blindingly obvious to anyone even remotely
familiar with the subject, which means they shouldn't be able to get a
patent on it. The rule is that it has to be non-obvious, not just that
nobody has done it yet.

I mean, there's nothing new about a drag-n-drop interface, or a print
server, or sending "internet of things" updates to websites, and
combining all of them with respect to 3D printers is already under
discussion. But, you know, nobody's actually done it yet.

So should the open source community let this kind of thing go, or
should the community try to watch out for and stop this kind of thing?

-Matt

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[Andrew Mazzotta]

If I had a software tool already built like this I would challenge it. Life is short and patents are sometimes unfairly used that benefit only a few.

Andrew

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