Using someone else's patent during a pandemic

Hello everyone!

Against the backdrop of the pandemic and quarantine, the news about the entrepreneur from Italy Cristian Fracassi (Cristian Fracassi), CEO of Isinnova, who, having learned about the lack of spare valves for mechanical ventilation devices (IVL), recently began to print them on a 3D printer and was free of charge. transfer to hospitals. Since the entrepreneur did not have drawings for creating the valve, they had to be created independently. The story itself is described in more detail at  Inc.

^{Valves in question. © Cristian Fracassi, photo taken from the entrepreneur's Facebook page. Link to the photo.}

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