- Lulzbot closing by end of October? Lawsuit filed by employee (3dprintingindustry.com)
October 17, 2019
- Justice is Served: Abu Dhabi Police Begin 3D Printing Initiative to Help Successfully Link Evidence to Crimes (3dprint.com)
April 6, 2018
- Desktop Metal Launches Lawsuit Against Markforged (fabbaloo.com)
March 24, 2018
- Desktop Metal files patent infringement lawsuit against Markforged, alleges trade secret misappropriation (3ders.org)
March 21, 2018
- Desktop Metal close new financing round with Ford (3dprintingindustry.com)
March 19, 2018
- 3D Systems to Conquer Dental and Move onto Every Other Vertical (engineering.com)
February 23, 2018
- Cody Wilson’s 3D Printed Liberator Lawsuit on Its Way to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (3dprint.com)
August 26, 2015
The landmark lawsuit against the United States State Department filed by gun rights advocate Cody Wilson and the creator of the 3D printed Liberator pistol continues to gain steam, even after a recent setback. Earlier this month, District Judge Robert Pitman denied Cody Wilson’s preliminary injunction against the State Department’s order that he stop disseminating the Liberator’s files online, stating that any potential violations of his Constitutional rights did not outweigh the public interest. However, yesterday Wilson took to Twitter and announced that he successfully filed his appeal to that decision and the case was on its way to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
- A 3D Printed M-200 Sniper Rifle Model Opens the Door to the Sniper’s Craft (3dprint.com)
August 3, 2015
The CheyTac Intervention, an American-made, bolt-action sniper rifle, is manufactured by CheyTac LLC. With a 7-round detachable, single-stack magazine, the M-200, as it’s also known, fires .408 caliber or .375 Chey Tac ammunition and is highly accurate to ranges of up to an astonishing 2,500 yards, making it one of the most effective long range weapons among modern-day sniper rifles.
- Don’t Let 3D Printed Guns Ruin a Good Thing – 3D Printing Will Change the World for the Better (3dprintingindustry.com)
July 21, 2015
We can all agree that 3D printing is an amazing technology, and one which has the ability to constantly surprise and delight us. Whether it’s new ways to print prosthetics, or just create 3D printed flowers for your home, it seems like 3D printing is starting to have an impact on every aspect of our lives. For most of us this is incredibly exciting, but it has started to worry others.
- Cobblebot Threatens Backer with Lawsuit for Reposting a Video of the 3D Printer (3dprint.com)
July 15, 2015
My experience has been absolutely horrid. According to their [Cobblebot’s] own words the January backers will start to receive shipping invoices this week.
- Relativity Space Steps Closer to 3D Printing Complete Rocket with New Investment (engineering.com)
April 11, 2018
- The best 3D printing startups of 2018 (3dprintingindustry.com)
April 6, 2018
- China FDA calls for professional guidance on 3D printed medical devices (3dprintingindustry.com)
March 23, 2018
- NASA seeks commercialization of new nozzle specific metal 3D printing technology (3dprintingindustry.com)
March 20, 2018
- CGTrader integrates PolyPort encyption to protect 3D designs (3dprintingindustry.com)
March 9, 2018
Another step toward protecting digital rights to assets.
- Teen Clock Maker Receives 3D Printer & More in Techno Goody Bag as Support from Microsoft (3dprint.com)
September 21, 2015
You never know what a Monday morning will bring–as in the case last week when one rather precocious kid took his basement-built clock into a Texas classroom to impress a teacher. His ‘reward’ was to end up in hot water with both the principal and the police.
- The Shuty Hybrid 3D Printed 9mm Pistol Raises Questions About 3D Printed Gun Control (3dprint.com)
August 19, 2015
I say this as both a firearm enthusiast and an advocate for strong firearm regulation. It is becoming evident that there is a point when we as a society are just going to have to accept that 3D printed weapons are not going to disappear behind walls of legislation. Will that point be when entire guns can easily be 3D printed and constructed at home? Because it is pretty evident at this point that 3D printable firearms will be here soon, and both sides of the controversial issue are going to have to stop chipping away at each other’s platforms and start a real conversation about what kind of society we will have when they get here.
- 3D Scanning: the Achilles Heel of IP Protection for 3D Printing (3dprintingindustry.com)
July 28, 2015
Jerry Fisher unexpectedly found himself in legal hot water after publishing 3D models of a famous Michelangelo statue located on Augustana College’s campus. Mr. Fisher used hundreds of photographs of the statue to create a 3D model. After uploading the model to MakerBot’s Thingiverse, Augustana College requested that Mr. Fisher take it down, on the grounds that he had violated copyright law.[
- Charity pays tribute to honor killing Shafilea Ahmed with sculpture created with Tweets and 3D printing (3ders.org)
July 16, 2015
Usually, 3D printing in plastic is a convenient alternative to other manufacturing options, but in the case of this 3D printed bust of Shafilea Ahmed, it’s a powerful statement. This 3D printed bust was made by British charity Karma Nirvana to commemorate her death – Shafilea Ahmed was suffocated with a plastic bag in an honor killing – and to raise awareness for honor killings across Britain. It was revealed on 14 July to coincide with the National Day of Memory, a new day of national awareness specifically intended to prevent more honor killings from happening and to prevent that victims are lost from memory – which is often precisely the goal of the killers.
- Lawsuit claims MakerBot knowingly sold glitchy 3D printers (engadget.com) (engadget.com)
July 12, 2015
MakerBot and its parent company Stratasys committed a "fraudulent scheme"..Evidence suggests: QA had a hard time even getting complete 3D printers to test......
- Inside Stratasys Spin-Off Evolve Additive’s STEP 3D Printing Technology (engineering.com)
April 11, 2018
- INTERVIEW: Terry Wohlers on the 2018 Wohlers Report, explosive growth in 3D printing (3dprintingindustry.com)
April 4, 2018
- Massivit 1500 3D printer technical specifications (3dprintingindustry.com)
March 23, 2018
- Nikon Files Patent Application for Print-Repairing 3D Printer (3dprint.com)
March 19, 2018
- BCN3D Releases Files Turning Sigmax 3D Printer Open Source
March 8, 2018
- Tiertime Fights Back Against Stratasys on Home Turf with uCRobotics Lawsuit (3dprintingindustry.com)
September 16, 2015
As the 3D printing industry grows, so do the lawsuits. I may be missing a few, but, so far, here are the lawsuits occurring in the industry: Stratasys v Afinia, Shareholders v Stratasys, Shareholders v 3D Systems, and Rokit v Moment. Memjet v HP has been deemed by legal professionals as not very 3D printing related and 3D Systems v Formlabs has been resolved. To fill the lawsuit void is Beijing Tiertime, the manufacturers of the popular UP! series of 3D printers, who are now suing uCRobotics, a Chinese distributor of MakerBot 3D printers.
- Memjet Files Lawsuit Against HP Alleging Patent Infringement Related to Forthcoming 3D Printers (3dprint.com)
August 12, 2015
Full-color printing technology manufacturer Memjet has filed a lawsuit alleging patent infringement against computer hardware manufacturer Hewlett-Packard. The lawsuit alleges that Hewlett-Packard has infringed upon eight different patents that Memjet holds related to their page-wide “waterfall” printing technology. Hewlett-Packard recently began incorporating technology similar to Memjet’s across its entire line of 2D printers, and is also incorporating it into their new full-color Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer.
- United Nations’ Second Meeting of Governmental Experts Discusses Dangers of 3D Printable Firearms (3dprint.com)
July 22, 2015
I’m sure you all know by now that governments across the globe are paying particular attention to the 3D printing space when it comes to the fabrication of undetectable firearms. While politicians in the United States seek to limit the public’s ability to download and share schematics for and to actually 3D print firearms, the concerns are not limited to this nation alone.
- 3 Dangers Society Faces From 3D Printing (3dprint.com)
July 16, 2015
Undetectable 3D Printed Weapons, 3D Printed Drugs and The Fall of Intellectual Property (IP)
- Designer 3D Prints & Shares Poison Dart Gun in Response to Ban on Online Weapon Schematics Sharing (3dprint.com)
July 9, 2015
It’s a well-known fact in basic psychology that as soon as you tell people not to do something, that is exactly what they will want to do; in fact, many individuals will want to push the limits as far as possible, delighting in drawing attention via clever workarounds.