Only a few weeks after I posted that the intellectual property sky isn’t falling due to 3D printers, a report has been released suggesting that exactly the opposite might be true. Gartner, a respected tech research firm, is predicting that by…
Tag: innovation
3D Printing and Scanning: The IP Sky Isn’t Falling
First – an apology for the lack of updates. You can guess what my new year’s resolution is going to be. When we started this blog, we thought it would be interesting to look at some of the IP and…
An Interview with 3D Industries on the Future of 3D Search and IP
Law in the Making had the chance recently to interview Seena Rajal, CEO and founder of London-based 3D search start-up 3D Industries (3DI). 3DI’s search engine offers the ability to “search for components, supplies, designs, industrial parts… using shape and…
Smooth Moves: How to Avoid Getting Blocked (by 3D Printing Patents)
3D printing, in particular the low-cost kind, often means accepting the fact that your printed parts are often going to look kind of rough, with perceptible lines/bumps marking each layer that was printed to form the object. Smoothing is one…
Is Off-Patent, Low-Cost 3D Printing Competition SLOWING Innovation?
There’s a post on 3ders today about how 3D printing impacts shoemakers Reebok and Puma. The general point of the post is that shoe manufacturers have been using 3D printing for a long time. But there’s a particularly interesting quote…
Prizes vs. Patents: 83-Year-Old Wins $40k for Low-Cost 3D Printing Solution
There’s an amazing story at Time about an 83-year-old inventor named Hugh Lyman who entered a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation-affiliated entrepreneurial competition called the Desktop Factory Competition. The problem that Lyman set out to solve is the high cost of…
3D Print a Healthier You: Episode I – Diagnostics & Demonstrations
There is another medical revolution in the making besides printing your own drugs. Surgical procedures stand to benefit early from all of the advances in 3D printing. From diagnostics to replacement “parts,” highly personalized small-scale manufacturing lends itself perfectly to…
3D Printed Guns Get Closer
Yahoo has a post from Philip Bump of the Atlantic Wire arguing that legal approaches to stop 3D printed guns from proliferating are unlikely to stop those like Defense Distributed who have pledged to make them a reality. Defense Distributed…
(Paul’s) Post One, Part Two: Making Printers! And then Getting Sued! (3D Systems v. Formlabs)
This post is an adjunct to my inaugural post, in which I explained why the expiry of some of the original Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) patents is leading to a new wave of low-cost 3D…