XYZ printers July 10, 2018, 09:06:50 PM It looks like XYZ printing are trying to cause trouble for Creality at the minute.Naomi Wu has put up a tweet about them filing a patent complaint against the Ender 3 with Amazon.https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1016509621941387264According to her they were very annoyed(pissed off) with her efforts to promote open soursce.Based on a U.S patent, allegedly this oneNow this doesn't look like anything the Ender 3 could be infringing, not to me at least, and I've found and had a good look at the original patent.I'm going to link it here.Documentation:http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=09987802&PageNum=1&&IDKey=6379072AEFBA&HomeUrl=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1%2526Sect2=HITOFF%2526d=PALL%2526p=1%2526u=%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r=1%2526f=G%2526l=50%2526s1=9987802.PN.%2526OS=PN/9987802%2526RS=PN/9987802andWeb description.United States Patent: 9987802It should also be noted that there is also a fairly interesting thread about their software on GitHub in the Slic3r repo.GPL violation? XYZware · Issue #4103 · slic3r/Slic3r · GitHub 1 Likes
Re: XYZ printers Reply #1 – July 12, 2018, 04:27:34 PM Here is a video about this situation.https://youtu.be/wMvDxx1-clo
Re: XYZ printers Reply #2 – July 14, 2018, 03:49:39 PM XYZ have released a statement which can be found here.TwitterThey deny that they made the infringment claim and state that they are making enquiries as to who has made the claims. I suggest you read the statement for clarity on XYZs position. Last Edit: July 14, 2018, 03:52:30 PM by Dave