IP Has To Learn How To Survive In A 3D-Printable World

Law360, New York (September 12, 2014, 11:19 AM EDT) -- In July of this year, do-it-yourself home improvement giant Home Depot Inc. announced it would begin selling desktop 3D printers at a dozen locations in New York, Illinois and California.[1] With this trial run, Home Depot joins Staples Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Dell Inc. in the desktop 3D printer market, with Hewlett-Packard Co. and Seiko Epson Corp. hard at work developing their own additive manufacturing machines. Indeed, some suggest the sales trajectory of desktop 3D printers will rival that of the PC,[2] and if the rapid pace of recent technological advances is a guide, it will not be long before millions of consumers have mini manufacturing plants in their homes....

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