3d printing intellectual property
Shots Fired: The 3D Printing Materials IP War Has Begun as Joshua Pearce Releases Algorithm for Obviousness
As 3D printing becomes more successful and dependable, the ability to fabricate just about anything at home without the need of mass production is virtually inevitable. This ability to circumvent…
Ordered to Cease & Desist, Designers Return with 2nd Set of Duchamp-Inspired 3D Printed Chess Pieces
3D printing seems to be the catalyst for a new world of creativity and innovation, perhaps infinite. Designers wow us at every turn it seems, with intricately fabricated 3D models….
Pinshape & 3DPrinterOS Partner for Click & Stream to 3D Print & More
The simplicity–and ramifications–of what a new partnership between Pinshape and 3DPrinterOS offers are absolute genius. With this partnership, they are setting not only the tone for the future of 3D printing…
Katy Perry Out of Luck with 3D Printed Left Shark, Trademark Request Denied
Although a recent trademark denial has deemed it so, it’s hard to believe that anyone associates Left Shark with anything other than Katy Perry these days. The singer and songwriter,…
California Assembly Bill AB-37 Aims for Posting 3D Printing Rules & Warnings in Libraries
While 3D printing has been transforming and ‘disrupting’ so many traditional methods for designing, prototyping, and manufacturing, it may also prove itself to be disruptive in an area many designers…
CES on the Hill: Pinshape to Represent the 3D Printing Community & Intellectual Property Issues in Front of Congress
Whenever the intellectual property and copyright legalities start popping up in conversation regarding 3D design and 3D printing, most of us immediately and quietly think “why can’t we all just…
Answers to Some of the Biggest 3D Printing Skeptics
If you’ve been reading our site for longer than a couple of weeks, then you likely have figured out that we are obsessed with 3D printing. Why are we…
Additive Manufacturing Creates Tremendous Opportunities, as well as Risks
We all hear the promise of how advanced manufacturing forms will change the world. The 3D printing revolution will be able to make stronger, lighter, and more efficient products, and…
UK Study Assesses Legal and Industry Ramifications of 3D Printing & Intellectual Property
When the military and the government begin looking into a unique technology — and using it for previously unheard-of exercises and means to an end — you know it’s something of…
Authentise and Guardtime Establish Partnership to Secure 3D Printing Intellectual Property
There is no doubt that 3D printing is going to change the world as we know it, in a major way over the next decade. Most of these changes will…