<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/9825/formlabs-lawsuit-settlement/ Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:46:59 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/86602/#p86602 Why is it too bad? It is 30 year old technology IMHO  time to let others in on it.

Today, any big company will tell you that the limited monopoly of a patent or copyright gives them a head start and ultimately fosters innovation and competition.

the 30 year limit encourages the development of new improved technologies. And sometimes holding onto a pattern stifles the product. In the days of VCR tapes Beta max format was superior And Sony held the patent closely. . But JVC licences out the VHS format to anyone willing to pay royalties and the technology thrived.  that is until better cheaper storage formats were developed.  IIRC the patents outlived the technology in the case of compact video tapes. IMHO the current trend is many technologies are pushed aside by new technology long before the patent expires. So whoever develops the new technology and patents it has the competitive edge.

What I think is sad is the other countries that blatenly copy things and disregard Patent laws.

BTW thanks for the link.
Tin

Edited: beta was developed by sony,  jvc had the VHS patent.

]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:46:59 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/86602/#p86602 <![CDATA[Re: Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/86596/#p86596 Too bad they are loosing there patents bit by bit, now anybody and there mother can use SL tech.

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2013/12/2 … -overview/

]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:03:22 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/86596/#p86596 <![CDATA[Re: Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/85276/#p85276 I wonder if the same thing will happen with the DLP printers? I think envisiontec uses that approach.

]]> Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:24:25 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/85276/#p85276 <![CDATA[Re: Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/84645/#p84645 Ah good. Wouldn't want an immensely useful and transformative technology to be out of the hands of multi-million dollar corporations... That'd just be disastrous....

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 05:11:28 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/84645/#p84645 <![CDATA[Re: Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/84546/#p84546 You can't buy someone that doesn't want to be bought. I'm sure that was an option.

]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:49:59 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/84546/#p84546 <![CDATA[Re: Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/84545/#p84545 I'm surprised 3d Systems didn't just buy Formlabs.

]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:48:36 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/84545/#p84545 <![CDATA[Re: Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/84409/#p84409 IronMan wrote:

maybe the 8% is actually pretty lenient.

+1

It wouldn't have been 8% if Formlabs had approached 3Dsystems first.

]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:55:10 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/84409/#p84409 <![CDATA[Re: Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/84385/#p84385 there are a few other similar companies but they dont make as large of build area printer. so not really competition for "professional use" and cost is much lower so wouldnt even pay lawyers lunch accounts. kinda like fishermen have to just deal with the small fish stealing bait. its called rebait. lol

]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:11:54 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/84385/#p84385 <![CDATA[Re: Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/84325/#p84325 8% Wow!  In my world, 3-5% is the norm; but that does not take into account an infringement issue on the part of Formlabs; willful or not...on second thought, maybe the 8% is actually pretty lenient.

]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:21:56 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/84325/#p84325 <![CDATA[Re: Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/84323/#p84323 That's brutal

]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:01:30 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/84323/#p84323 <![CDATA[Formlabs lawsuit settlement]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/84282/#p84282 Don't know how I missed this before. This is pretty big news for any SLA printer start-ups. 

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2014/12/0 … ettlement/

Details of the two companies’ financial deal were not revealed in the court filings dismissing the patent lawsuit earlier this week. But a new 3D Systems filing with the SEC lays out the price tag: Formlabs gets a “worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty bearing” license to eight 3D Systems patents in exchange for 8 percent of Formlabs’ net sales.

Bad news for the future of hobby SLA printers.

]]> Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:10:49 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/84282/#p84282