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Patent wars for you to read about this week,
dark times ahead...
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Law
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"3D Systems has announced it is bringing suit in Federal District Court against Formlabs and Kickstarter, seeking injunctive relief and damages for alleged infringement of a patent relating to how the startup’s light-based printer operates."
Read more on Tech Crunch, Wired and Core77
Submitted and via @coliwilso and @samotage
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People
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"We were using SketchUp to teach about 3D design. But I did not really get into 3D design until I got my hands on a MakerBot 3D printer in the Fall 2011. Now I have seven of them!"
Read more about Jaymes on the Tinkercad Blog
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"In Makers, Wired editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson reveals that a new industrial revolution is under way. Today's entrepreneurs, using open-source design and 3-D printing, are employing micro-manufacturing techniques to create a tsunami of products in small batches, often customized for specific customers at higher margins."
Read more and watch the video on 3ders
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Medical / Slightly Creepy
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"To make the biobot's body, the team used a 3-D printer, which creates solid objects by laying down successive layers of soft materials that fuse together and harden."
Read more on National Geographic
Submitted by @purrsikat
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