R3 Printing: Signed Crowd SAFEs and a Patent Update! 💡🏆
🍂 November greetings, everyone! We're thrilled to share our latest updates with our R3 Printing Early Investors and with those following us from within the Republic early investing community.
Signed Crowd SAFEs Issued!
It's our pleasure to announce that the Crowd SAFEs for our latest round have been issued! If you're an R3 Printing Early Investor who participated in this campaign, an email titled "R3 Printing: Investment Finalized" should have been sent your way. Hooray! 🎉 You can also access your investor documents at any time in your portfolio here: https://republic.co/portfolio/r3-printing/
If you need any assistance or have specific questions regarding your Crowd SAFE, Republic's investor support team is always ready to help you. You can email them at: investors@republic.co
United States Utility Patent Granted! 🏆
We're incredibly proud to share that one of our patent applications has been accepted and granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)!
This is an incredible milestone - according to a U.S. patent statistics chart, only about half of all patent applications received by the USPTO are granted. Not only that, but the process of writing, filing, and most importantly - waiting - for the USPTO to review an application and respond to the applicant is a complex, multi-year process. In fact, the patent application we just got granted was started in the summer of 2014! 😲
As you may already know, R3 Printing has several other patents pending for our additive manufacturing innovations, and we look forward to sharing more exciting updates like these in the future!
Until next time,
Petra Wood | Head of Growth