Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a new production technology that is transforming the way all sorts of things are made. President Barack Obama, in his 2013 State of the Union Address, talked about 3-D Printing, one AM process, as having the potential to revolutionize the way we make everything. With the rise of AM comes a multitude of new legal issues, particularly in the intellectual property area.
AM makes three-dimensional (3D) solid objects of virtually any shape from a digital model. Generally, this is achieved by creating a digital blueprint of a desired solid object with computer-aided design (CAD) modeling software and then "slicing" that virtual blueprint into very small digital cross-sections. These cross-sections are formed or printed in a sequential layering process in an AM machine to create the 3D object.
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