"I'm about to be in a position similar to this as a contractor. while I'm not too worried about the money, I would like to have a patent rights clause in my contract, but not sure where to turn for help. Can't really afford too many lawyer hours right now."

"Got beat to the Union Jack observation, but I’ll post my comment anyway — “perhaps it’s part of the Union Jack package”."

"Also really like the Bentley wagon."

"The Lambo truck is actually not terrible."

"doesn't seem like a hole lotta time..."

"I obviously have no inside knowledge of how this decision was made, but I do know that not only is the cost of 3D printing coming down, but specifically for smaller runs it can be more cost effective than having the tooling made plus the cost of materials and manufacturing. Obviously GM already has an enormous fleet of 3D printers so it's not like they're having to farm this out to Shapeways. And for the size of the part, I'd wager they did the whole run in one shot for the low production numbers I'm assuming this model will be produced in. But I agree with other commenters; the design is a little underwhelming. "

"Don't hate on Colani!"

"That makes sense."

"wellp. threw thirty bucks at 'em. we'll see how it works."

"Looks like someone needs a specialized tool..."

""Good writers are not threatened by war processors" - Terrible analogy. Would a good writer be threatened by a good AI story bot? "

"I'm definitely "one of those" designers!"