EFF and Partners Challenge Six 3D Printing Patent Applications
If there's something that drives us crazy, it's when patents get in the way of innovation. Unfortunately, we often don't find out about the most dangerous patents until it's too late—once they've been used to assert infringement. That's why we were encouraged by the new provision of the patent law that allows third parties to easily challenge patent applications while those applications are still pending.Previously:
But, here's the rub: it's hard to identify those dangerous applications. And, once you do, it's even harder to find the right information to challenge those applications during the window that the law allows. So we partnered with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Ask Patents and—most importantly—you.
As of today, we've now challenged six pending patent applications that you helped us identify as applications that, if granted, would particularly threaten the growing field of 3D printing technology. Harvard's Cyberlaw Clinic hand delivered the first two submissions to the Patent Office earlier this year, and we've since sent in four more....MORE
"Being a Patent Troll Now Patented" and "Nathan Myhrvold's Cunning Plan to Prevent 3-D Printer Piracy"
Patents vs. Innovation: 3D Printing Edition (SSYS; DDD; IRBT)
Electronic Frontier Foundation Mobilizing to Fight 3D Printing Patent Trolls
DLA Piper: Clone Wars 3D Printing and Intellectual Property ( and Nathan Myhrvold's Cunning Plan to Prevent 3-D Printer Piracy)
