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Posted by: Jim on: 12/18/2012 03:33 AM
A few weeks ago EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation - asked users to help them identify patents that were overly broad or threatening to the open environment of 3D printing. They were successful in identifying several such applications that they think are dangerous to the open environment. Now they are calling for more help.
"Specifically, we need documents published before the filing date of each application. Web pages, emails, journal articles, or patents are all appropriate documents, as long as they were reasonably public. An email to a friend is not public, but an email to a large mailing list likely is, particularly if the mailing list was open for anyone to join. If the date of publication is not clear from the face of the document, we'll need to submit evidence of the date for the reference to count."
You can find a list of the patent applications here and what you can do to help.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/we-need-your-help-join-our-fight-keep-3d-printing-open
"Specifically, we need documents published before the filing date of each application. Web pages, emails, journal articles, or patents are all appropriate documents, as long as they were reasonably public. An email to a friend is not public, but an email to a large mailing list likely is, particularly if the mailing list was open for anyone to join. If the date of publication is not clear from the face of the document, we'll need to submit evidence of the date for the reference to count."
You can find a list of the patent applications here and what you can do to help.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/we-need-your-help-join-our-fight-keep-3d-printing-open