3D printing legal issues

Desktop Metal Lawsuit Alleging Misleading of Investors Dismissed

In January of this year, we reported on a class action lawsuit against Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM) and its executives, including CEO Ric Fulop and former EnvisionTEC executives Ali El-Siblani…

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​​How Cathie Wood’s ARK Triggered 3D Printing’s Mergerocalypse

Financial markets nearly crashed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with general production and consumption activity reduced dramatically. One sector in particular received significant, newfound attention for the role…

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3D Systems to Pay Up to $27M to Settle Allegations of Illegal Exports to China

3D Systems (NYSE: DDD), one of the additive manufacturing (AM) sector’s true pioneers, settled a court case with the US federal government on February 27, 2023, based on allegations that…

3D Printing May Also Disrupt Product Liability Laws

In their recently published paper, ‘What Shall we do with the Drunken Sailor? Product Safety in the Aftermath of 3D Printing,’ Klaus Heine and Shu Li discuss how a disruptive…

The Debate Over 3D Printed Guns Rages on Around the US

The topic of 3D printed guns has been a pretty hot button issue around the world for quite a while, and especially in the US at this time. But rather than…

17 Top 3D Printing Themes of 2017

2017 has been, by any measure, an eventful year, and as always the end of December brings us to a retrospective season as we look back on all that has…

3D Printing Spotlight On: Kathryn Hurley, General Counsel, MakerBot

No industry is without its own legal challenges, and 3D printing presents plenty, especially related to intellectual property and copyright issues. It’s important for any 3D printing company to have…

Appeals Court Rules That Stratasys’ Hyping of MakerBot 5th Generation Replicator 3D Printer is Still Not Fraud

Just when you thought it was over…it’s baack. About a year ago, it appeared that the lawsuit filed by shareholders against Stratasys and MakerBot had finally been put to rest, but…

3D Printing Spotlight On: Jennifer Prioleau, Division Counsel, HP Inc.

One of the biggest issues in the 3D printing industry as it grows is intellectual property, as legal concerns surround the nascent industry. One of the biggest stories over the…

Global Law Firm Hunton & Williams Launches New Team Dedicated to Dealing with 3D Printing Legal Issues

Back in college I had a business teacher use a truism that has always seemed to prove itself to be pretty accurate. He said that you know a new industry…

Cleveland Law Firm Benesch is Hosting Its Second Annual 3D Printing Conference on April 21st, Focusing on 3D Printing Legal Issues

While the actual technology may have been invented over two decades ago, 3D printing has only now started to become a major industrial manufacturing process. Even now that it is…

Protecting 3D Printed Designs – Can Trade Dress Rights Fill the Void?

Imagine you’ve designed a new product with 3D printing.  Thinking of ways to protect it can be a daunting challenge.  Hopefully, you’ll consider some basic agreements with any third parties…

The Saga of the Japanese 3D Printed Vagina Kayak Lady Continues

Japan is the only place in the world that could have a $20 billion a year pornography industry, twice the size of the United States’, and yet the actual depiction of…