This post originally appeared on the Shapeways blog.  And yes, I know that this story was on hyperallergic well before it made it to the New York Times.  I wrote this as they started boarding my flight to Tokyo for the International Conference on Digital Fabrication and didn’t have time to do as much hyperlink due diligence as I would have liked.  That’s also why the questions that open it don’t have reference links.  But enough meta-post, let’s get on to the post.

This post originally appeared on the Shapeways blog.

Probably, but not for a while and not in the ways we’d anticipate.  

[edit 7/22/17: Believe it or not, there is a third chapter to this story and it introduces defamation of all things.]

[edit 2/20/16: After getting more specific information about Just 3D Print’s legal arguments I addressed them point by point here.]