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How 3-D Printing Could Affect The Spare Parts Market

Law360, New York ( November 4, 2015, 10:43 AM EST) -- Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a project missing one simple, key piece? If you are like most people, you eventually acquired the missing piece by going to the store or purchasing the piece online. Either way, time was lost because the project could not be finished until the piece arrived in the mail or you went to the store. What if you could simply make the missing piece at home? With the advent of 3-D printers, it is fast becoming a reality that these missing pieces can simply be manufactured at home. Therein lies the danger to the spare parts intellectual property landscape — manufacturing spare or missing parts without a trackable, quantifiable market purchase....

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