3D Printing: Mo' Markets, Mo' Problems
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3D Printing: Mo’ Markets, Mo’ Problems Aram Sinnreich, Ph.D. Rutgers University School of Communication & Information This text is freely available under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike license.
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On Tuesday 1/28/14, I spoke to the NYS Bar Association's IP Annual Meeting about 3D printing and its implications for industry and law. Here are the slides I used.
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3D Printing:Mo’ Markets, Mo’ ProblemsAram Sinnreich, Ph.D.Rutgers University School of Communication & Information
This text is freely available under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
3D Printers are Reaching the Mainstream
$5.7 billion
$288 million
3D Printing Drivers and Inhibitors
2014
2020
DRIVERS
INHIBITORS
Scarcecontent
Qualitygap
Patentlandscape
Fallingprices
Betterapps
AggressiveR&D
Education & outsourcing
High stakes
Patentexpiry,
legislation,regulation
Highprice
points
Lack ofstandards
Opensource
3D Printing Adoption Timeline: 4 Phases
Industrial
Today 2-3 years
eCommerce
5-7 years
Local
10+ years
Home
Legal Questions & Considerations
Patent• SLS/SLA patents expiring 2014• Secondary patents controlled by 3D Systems & Stratasys• Will ease of replication undermine the core function of patents?Copyright• What constitutes a “useful” article?• How does merger doctrine apply to digital 3D models?• Secondary liability for printers and service providers?Other• Whither trademark?• How to avoid the “piracy” battles of 2000s• DRM?• DMCA for design?
• Safety regulation & liability?
Thank you.
Aram Sinnreich, [email protected]
Books by Aram Sinnreich
Mashed Up (2010)www.mashed-up.com
The Piracy Crusade (2013)www.piracycrusade.com
