<div dir="ltr"><br><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/eff-partners-challenge" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/eff-partners-challenge</a><br><br>EFF and Partners Challenge Six 3D Printing Patent Applications<br>
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Subject: [Open Manufacturing] EFF and Partners Challenge Six 3D Printing Patent Applications<br>To: <a href="mailto:openmanufacturing@googlegroups.com">openmanufacturing@googlegroups.com</a>, 31337 <<a href="mailto:linux-elitists@zgp.org">linux-elitists@zgp.org</a>><br>
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EFF and Partners Challenge Six 3D Printing Patent Applications<br>
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If there's something that drives us crazy, it's when patents get in the way<br>
of innovation. Unfortunately, we often don't find out about the most<br>
dangerous patents until it's too late—once they've been used to assert<br>
infringement. That's why we were encouraged by the new provision of the<br>
patent law that allows third parties to easily challenge patent applications<br>
while those applications are still pending.<br>
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But, here's the rub: it's hard to identify those dangerous applications. And,<br>
once you do, it's even harder to find the right information to challenge<br>
those applications during the window that the law allows. So we partnered<br>
with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society<br>
and Ask Patents and—most importantly—you.<br>
<br>
As of today, we've now challenged six pending patent applications that you<br>
helped us identify as applications that, if granted, would particularly<br>
threaten the growing field of 3D printing technology. Harvard's Cyberlaw<br>
Clinic hand delivered the first two submissions to the Patent Office earlier<br>
this year, and we've since sent in four more.<br>
<br>
The prior art we’ve submitted so far thanks to your submissions ranges from<br>
patents and blog posts to research papers and symposium proceedings. Each<br>
prior art document gives the Patent Office tools to reject patent claims for<br>
obviousness. That in turn helps protect the diverse, exciting uses of 3D<br>
printing that are gaining in popularity each day, from small hobbyist<br>
printers to large-scale, high-quality commercial fabrication using materials<br>
ranging from titanium to chocolate.<br>
<br>
Here are copies of what we submitted to the Patent Office. The good news is<br>
that so far, the Patent Office has accepted our submissions (because of that,<br>
if you're thinking of making your own preissuance submissions, you might want<br>
to use these as a model). Now we wait to see whether our input influences the<br>
examiners.<br>
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Fabrication of Non-Homogeneous Articles Via Additive Manufacturing Using<br>
Three-Dimensional Voxel-Based Models<br>
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Build Materials and Applications Thereof<br>
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Method for Generating and Building Support Structures With Deposition-Based<br>
Digital Manufacturing Systems<br>
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Process for Producing Three-Dimensionally Shaped Object and Device for<br>
Producing Same (Ask Patents request for prior art)<br>
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Additive Manufacturing System and Method for Printing Customized Chocolate<br>
Confections (Ask Patents request for prior art)<br>
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Ribbon Filament and Assembly for Use in Extrusion-based Digital Manufacturing<br>
Systems (Ask Patents request for prior art)<br>
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Our work doesn’t stop here. Next we’re going to investigate a number of<br>
pending applications that impact mesh networking technology—another area with<br>
an extremely active open development community and with tremendous potential.<br>
We’ll be asking you to help us again soon. Stay tuned!<br>
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Files<br>
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191_ribbon_filament_presub.pdf<br>
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217_gas_flow_presub.pdf<br>
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424_chocolate_presub.pdf<br>
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503_voxel_model_presub.pdf<br>
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876_build_material_presub.pdf<br>
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996_heide_presub.pdf<br>
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