MakerBot Files For Patent On A Design Derived From Work By Its Community

Posted by BernardSwiss on May 30, 2014 10:45 AM EDT
Techdirt; By Glyn Moody
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As Techdirt noted a couple of years ago, patents have been the bane of the 3D printing world, holding it back for years, possibly decades. Now it looks like patents have reared their ugly head again in this world:

In a stunning display of madness, makerbot industries files a patent application on a mechanism clearly derived from content created by their users. What's almost worse is the article they wrote praising the invention, presumably while they were filing the paperwork.

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