In the comments section of my post about the Left Shark cease-and-desist letter on Friday, I ended up having a really great exchange with Brazillian lawyer Bruna Castanheira. Bruna asked about a point raised by both NYU law professor Christopher…
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Call it a comeback
So, my last post was nearly a year ago… I’m not proud of that. But we’re officially back in business and there’s a lot to talk about. I am currently General Counsel and COO of Matter and Form Inc., makers of…
$100 Billion a Year in IP Theft Due to 3D Printers?
Only a few weeks after I posted that the intellectual property sky isn’t falling due to 3D printers, a report has been released suggesting that exactly the opposite might be true. Gartner, a respected tech research firm, is predicting that by…
3D Printing and Scanning: The IP Sky Isn’t Falling
First – an apology for the lack of updates. You can guess what my new year’s resolution is going to be. When we started this blog, we thought it would be interesting to look at some of the IP and…
How Hard is Low-Cost 3D Printing Patent Infringement?
A new article in the New York Times highlights both an interesting application for 3D printing, and (though it isn’t the point of the article) the ease with which one might infringe a patent with a 3D printer. The story…
Patent Infringement in 3D – Who to Sue?
Lauren Leahy is a guest blogger and is a summer student at Gilbert’s LLP in Toronto, where she works alongside Law in the Making co-founder Paul Banwatt. Contributions also made by Jamie Goodman, an associate at Gilbert’s LLP in Toronto.…
The Future in 3D: Guns, drugs and lawyers
I wrote an article surveying legal implications of 3D printing (from a Canadian perspective) for Lawyers Weekly with my colleague Ashlee Froese from Gilbert’s LLP. In the past three years, a feverish buzz has developed around 3D printing. The excitement…