cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18550496
Patent trolls doing patent troll things. Stratasys no longer provides usable value to the enterprise market and they’re stagnating bad, their only hope is to start suppressing competition through overly broad, unrefined patents obviously tailored to provide a blanket market lockout.
They’ve done it before and they’ll do it again. Fuck Stratasys, uncompetitive monopolistic fucks.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That’s like all of 3d printing, that’s pretty scary. If they win on all 5, seems like it’d kill consumer 3d printing entirely.
Schmeckinger@lemmy.world 3 months ago
When I look at these patents all of them seem to be patenting others inventions from years ago. So I hope prior art wins.
huginn@feddit.it 3 months ago
Which would also strip them of each of those patents.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Why can they even patent stuff they didn’t invent?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Better lawyers. Patent law is so f’d up. Few understand it and those that do take advantage of it.
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Eastern District of Texas is extremely favorable to patent trolls. It’s not a coincidence that they filed the suit there.
Hexbatch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hope one day it will be illegal to shop for judges to shut down tech companies
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I read the heated bed and it was about the way it’s built, so I’m not convinced it’s a general hot bed patent but something more small detail about how they are using it.
I suspect someone will need to do more research and this article is a knee jerk reaction
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 months ago
That seems geared only towards FDM printers, so SLA (resin) is still ok-ish? I do suppose those really big powder printers could also suffer.