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ARTICLE · 21 DECEMBER 2016

Additive Manufacturing – IP Challenges In Modern Day Manufacturing

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Products created using additive manufacturing techniques may not be covered by patents drafted with traditional manufacturing techniques in mind.

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Thomas Prock
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Additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) has been hitting the news for several years now, but with the speed of technological development only increasing, it is becoming inevitable that this new manufacturing technique is going to have a transformational effect on all kinds of manufacturing, and, consequently on IP protection.
 
Additive manufacturing techniques create products by incrementally adding material layer-by-layer. In addition to polymer products, metal objects (eg pump wheels and entire jet engines), medical and dental implants, pharmaceuticals/pills, entire concrete houses, ceramics, foodstuffs and even human cells and replacement blood vessels have all been created using this technique.

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