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020 _a9781316605349
082 _a347.77
_bOSB
100 _aOsborn, Lucas S.
245 _a3D Printing and Intellectual Property
260 _aUnited Kingdom
_bCambridge University
_c2019
300 _aix, 234p.
_b23 cm.
500 _aIntellectual 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.
650 _a3D printing technology's capabilities and effects
650 _aHow 3D printing works and why it matters
650 _aPrimer on intellectual property law 4. Can you patent a 3D printable file? (And why it matters)
650 _aPatents – direct infringement, individual infringement, and 'digital' infringement
650 _aPatents – indirect infringement and intermediaries
650 _a3D printing and trademarks: the dissociation between design and manufacturing
650 _a Creativity and utility: 3D printable files and the boundary between copyright and patent protection
650 _aDesign rights, tangibility, and free expression
650 _aDMFs and optimizing innovation incentives Conclusion
650 _aThree-dimensional printing--Law and legislation
650 _aIntellectual property
650 _aUnited States
650 _aThree-dimensional printing -- Law and legislation -- United States.
650 _aIntellectual property -- United States.
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