Form1 3D Printer and Kickstarter Get Sued For Patent Infringment

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @01:55AM from the thus-began-the-printing-wars dept.

An anonymous reader writes "3D Systems, one of the big fish in 3D printer manufacturing, filed a suit against Formlabs's hugely popular Form1 printer put forth on Kickstarter. The crowdfunding effort has amassed close to 3M US Dollars, of an initial 100K requested. 3D Systems accuses Formlabs and Kickstarter of knowingly infringing one of its still valid blanket patents on stereolithography and cross-sectional printing of 3D objects. The company is probably going to go for the kill, as one can deduce from the demands on their complaint." In "The State of Community Fabrication" presentation at HOPE9, Far McKon noted that no one had yet filed a patent lawsuit against a 3D printing company, but it looks like his fears have come true.

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Bre will be happy by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-21 02:06 · Score: 0, Troll

The Replicator 2 might take off in it's new target market if FORM1 get taken out of the equation before they get started. Lets hope so, Pettis is the personification of the open source/hacker spirit and it's only fair that he should replace Steve Jobs as the undisputed king of the hipsters.