3D Printing and Intellectual Property
Osborn, Lucas S.
3D Printing and Intellectual Property - United Kingdom Cambridge University 2019 - ix, 234p. 23 cm.
Intellectual property (IP) laws were drafted for tangible objects, but 3D printing technology, which digitizes objects and offers manufacturing capacity to anyone, is disrupting these laws and their underlying policies. In this timely work, Lucas S. Osborn focuses on the novel issues raised for IP law by 3D printing for the major IP systems around the world. He specifically addresses how patent and design law must wrestle with protecting digital versions of inventions and policing individualized manufacturing, how trademark law must confront the dissociation of design from manufacturing, and how patent and copyright law must be reconciled when digital versions of primarily utilitarian objects are concerned. With an even hand and keen insight, Osborn offers an innovation-centered analysis of and balanced response to the disruption caused by 3D printing that should be read by non experts and experts alike.
9781316605349
3D printing technology's capabilities and effects
How 3D printing works and why it matters
Primer on intellectual property law 4. Can you patent a 3D printable file? (And why it matters)
Patents – direct infringement, individual infringement, and 'digital' infringement
Patents – indirect infringement and intermediaries
3D printing and trademarks: the dissociation between design and manufacturing
Creativity and utility: 3D printable files and the boundary between copyright and patent protection
Design rights, tangibility, and free expression
DMFs and optimizing innovation incentives Conclusion
Three-dimensional printing--Law and legislation
Intellectual property
United States
Three-dimensional printing -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Intellectual property -- United States.
347.77 / OSB
3D Printing and Intellectual Property - United Kingdom Cambridge University 2019 - ix, 234p. 23 cm.
Intellectual property (IP) laws were drafted for tangible objects, but 3D printing technology, which digitizes objects and offers manufacturing capacity to anyone, is disrupting these laws and their underlying policies. In this timely work, Lucas S. Osborn focuses on the novel issues raised for IP law by 3D printing for the major IP systems around the world. He specifically addresses how patent and design law must wrestle with protecting digital versions of inventions and policing individualized manufacturing, how trademark law must confront the dissociation of design from manufacturing, and how patent and copyright law must be reconciled when digital versions of primarily utilitarian objects are concerned. With an even hand and keen insight, Osborn offers an innovation-centered analysis of and balanced response to the disruption caused by 3D printing that should be read by non experts and experts alike.
9781316605349
3D printing technology's capabilities and effects
How 3D printing works and why it matters
Primer on intellectual property law 4. Can you patent a 3D printable file? (And why it matters)
Patents – direct infringement, individual infringement, and 'digital' infringement
Patents – indirect infringement and intermediaries
3D printing and trademarks: the dissociation between design and manufacturing
Creativity and utility: 3D printable files and the boundary between copyright and patent protection
Design rights, tangibility, and free expression
DMFs and optimizing innovation incentives Conclusion
Three-dimensional printing--Law and legislation
Intellectual property
United States
Three-dimensional printing -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Intellectual property -- United States.
347.77 / OSB