US jury orders Bambu Lab to pay Stratasys $27.6M in patent case

On September 18, 2026, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas found companies tied to Bambu Lab liable for infringing four Stratasys patents and awarded about $27.6 million in damages. The dispute covers 3D printing technologies including purge towers, an extrusion-based method and force detection.

• Damages of $27.6M: $14.2M for purge towers, $10.6M for extrusion method, $2.8M for force detection
• Stratasys filed the suit on August 8, 2024, initially asserting ten patents
• Patents at issue: US 9,421,713, 7,555,357, 9,168,698 and 10,556,381
• Key dispute centers on the phrase 'layer by layer' in the purge tower patent