[Discuss] EFF Defensive - now we should consider offense

[Alicia Gibb]

Nice! I wonder if you know about the 3D/DC event this weekend:
http://www.publicknowledge.org/event/3ddc-ii-3d-printing-comes-washington-dc

Alicia


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Joshua Pearce
<professor.pearce at gmail.com>wrote:

> I commend the EFF and their partners for their work to defend the
> open-source 3-D printing ecosystem. Now it is time to start considering how
> we can be more offensive - that it is to preemptively eliminate the
> potential for intellectual property lock down of our work.  My group has
> started thinking about defensive publications of prior art to help identify
> obvious materials for 3-D printing and thus eliminate them from patenting
> because of the obvious clause. See http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:73427
>
> If anyone has opinions or thoughts about how we can make such an approach
> air tight - please share -- particularly if you are a patent lawyer.
>
> Thanks
> Joshua
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