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3D printing : legal issues and challenges

12.02.15 F. Monfort-Windels


Hype cycle for 3D Printing - 2014 - Gartner


Additive Manufacturing combines -Problems related to dematerialization

-Tools and machines for perfect copies for endless variations


New challenges -Multiplication of the stakeholders

•The value chain is no longer linear (designer, manufacturer, retailer, consumer) and varies •The end consumer enters the structure

-Dispersion of the players – international scene -Emergence of new business models -Open source, open innovation culture -Rapid technological developments

« Design for everybody » via -Low cost printers

-Low cost technologies for digital definition of things

-Open design, downloadable design, distributed design, co-creation, metadesign…

-Online printing services (Shapeways, i-Materialise…)

-Availability of new printing resources : FabLab, Hubs, shops…

Very cheap printers, accessible to all, < 1000 € Ex : Makerbot Often open source DIY, artists, craftsmen, schools, you and me Mid-range printers, 5000 € - 20.000 € -> 100.000 € Ex : Objet Designers, design offices, SMEs High performance equipment, 500.000 € - … Ex : Arcam – AM metal High operational and maintenance costs Service bureaus, manufacturing companies

IP

IP

IP

Printing


Printing Machines/Materials Parts CAD

Who is involved ?


- Most of the intellectual property rights

- Cumulative rights

What rights ?

Differences between The subject-matter of the protection

The act of infringement Exemptions and exceptions

…


Copies for private use Copies for public but non-commercial use Reproduction of spare parts, of assembly

parts …

With the tricky problems of


Patents


AM patent applications

Expiry of FDM patents

Expiry of laser sintering patents

First patent 1977


Printers - materials

2013 : Stratasys c/ Afinia FDM

EEF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) : To keep innovation open To nullify opportunistic / unfair patents

= collect information on prior art

2012 : EOS c/ AMT c/ EOS DMLS

2012 : 3D Systems c/ Formlabs Stereolithography

2014 : DSM Somos c/ 3D Systems UV resins

Technical, commercial, legal fighting


MAG Aerospace Industries Plumbing for lavatory waste disposal on an aircraft

Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation Induction motors and generators by LOM.

UOP LLC Methane conversion apparatus using a supersonic flow reactor. Schaeffler Technologies

Roller bearing cages


New in the Cooperative Patent Classification System


WO2006079188 PROCEDURE FOR DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF IMPLANT-BASED FRAMEWORKS FOR COMPLEX DENTAL PROSTHESES 1.A method for the production of a dental prosthetic framework having a density higher than 97% wherein said framework is directly produced using a selective laser powder processing technique. 2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the mean gap size between the fitting planes of the fitting structures of said framework and the supporting implants is below 40 [mu]m. 3. The method according to claims 1 or 2 wherein the framework has a density higher than 99%. 4. The method according to claims 1 to 3 wherein the framework is made in a biocompatible material.


Designs


OHMI 000322052-0001


DM/064602 DA 2003 00538-0001

! This is not an infringement


Trademarks



OHMI 010086072 Lotus Backeries

WIPO 824798 Spa Monopole

! This is not an infringement


Authors’ rights


Unregistered rights Economic/moral rights

Successive authors

Counterfeiters = potentially the entire supply chain -directly -indirectly


J. Fisher c/ City of Sioux Falls and Augustana College Photogrammetry, modelling and uploading on Thingiverse

Paramount (J.J. Abrams) c/ T.Blatt (Shapeways)

HBO c/ nuProto

Square Enix c/ Balwin (Shapeways)

http://www.google.be/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=Xpq4xwII3aI49M&tbnid=2AyU0wFkk7XfDM:&ved=&url=http://www.designschutznews.de/2011/09/j-j-abrams-%E2%80%9Esuper8%E2%80%9C-fuhrt-zu-ersten-urheberrecht-streit-um-3d-druck/&ei=QIdRUYCZKcfBPJ6BgZgM&bvm=bv.44158598,d.ZWU&psig=AFQjCNHNOzxeqwEYK28Z7OpIeGp732X1HA&ust=1364383937119631

http://nuproto.com/iThrone.html


Asher Nahmias

Stratasys 3D Systems

Thingiverse

http://co.creativecommons.org/files/2010/05/logo_creative_commons1.jpg


3Dprintler Inc. c/ Anubis Consultants Manufacturing Corp.


Anti-counterfeiting

Streaming, secured plateforms for selling designs

«Open product» licenses


Marking of parts - Encode information by bubbles or voids in the part or by the succession of layers - Insert a tag in the part during manufacturing - Include nanoparticles in materials - …

DRM (Digital Rights Management) - US8,286,236 - Authentise - Sendshapes

http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/4945/Shapeways-and-the-Factory-of-the-Future.aspx


Hasbro - Melinda Rose

Integration of AM in the company's strategy


Other legal/ethical issues

http://www.google.be/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=An0zKLoXB8GNgM&tbnid=ax6Q6eJUeLVgFM:&ved=&url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079670011001328&ei=pshRUf3pOIqU0QX6nICIAQ&bvm=bv.44158598,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNG0KmpnlP6bjXWTxDkBcyz_SUz13A&ust=1364400679455769

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