Recently it was reported that the FDA sent a letter to a mobile app developer, Biosense Technologies Private Ltd., informing them that their app product, the uChek Urine analyzer, potentially required FDA clearance as a medical device. The FDA is…
Tag: Novel Uses
The Future in 3D: Guns, drugs and lawyers
I wrote an article surveying legal implications of 3D printing (from a Canadian perspective) for Lawyers Weekly with my colleague Ashlee Froese from Gilbert’s LLP. In the past three years, a feverish buzz has developed around 3D printing. The excitement…
3D-Print-Yourself Machines Are Awesome – But Who Owns the Copyright?
Here’s a question that occurred to me today: There are these places popping up around the world where you can 3D print yourself. Makerbot lets you print your bust for a mere $25 at their store in NYC. There’s these…
3D Rx: The Future of Drug Manufacture and Delivery?
Jamie Goodman is a guest blogger and is an associate at Gilbert’s LLP in Toronto, where he works alongside Law in the Making co-founder Paul Banwatt. Lee Cronin, a renowned professor of chemistry and nanoscience, recently gave a TED talk…
3D Printing in the President’s State of the Union Address!
If there was any question that 3D printing has officially arrived, it was answered in President Obama’s State of the Union Address which specifically called out the potential of the technology to restore manufacturing in America. From the President’s prepared…
3D Printing Guns…
When we started this blog I assumed that the two main things we would cover would be 1) patents and other impediments to making 3D printers, and 2) patents, trade-marks, copyrights and other IP protections that may be enforced against…