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I doubt a valve is novel enough to be patented, and the 3D design was reverse engineered so it is not covered by Copyright. I doubt these guys have any kind of
by fungiblecog 7y ago
I doubt a valve is novel enough to be patented, and the 3D design was reverse engineered so it is not covered by Copyright. I doubt these guys have any kind of case that would stand up in court
- pnw_hazor 7y agoYou can't know that w/o seeing the valve and the patent. But there are probably immunities or limitations of liability at play here based on the circumstances. Generally, the medical device industry is cut throat and patent heavy. They patent every tweak they can to fend off competitors. It makes some sense because of the expense associated with bringing a medical device to market.
- Ballas 7y agoI don't think it counts as reverse engineered if you had access to the original - ie if you take measurements to reproduce it, you are copying it, not reverse engineering.
- tlrobinson 7y agoMeasuring the physical attributes of something certainly counts as "reverse engineering". You might be thinking of clean room design [1], where one team does the reverse engineering and writes spec, and another team implements it from the spec. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design