Penn State University has announced it is to begin offering a course relating to legal issues through its Additive Manufacturing and Design graduate programme.
AMFG and LEO Lane are to combine their software capabilities in a bid to offer file security and IP protection solutions to users of additive manufacturing technology.
Dr Lee-Bath Nelson, Co-Founder and VP Business at LEO Lane, discusses the risks in transitioning to additive manufacturing and how companies can overcome them.
CECIMO, the European Association of the Machine Tool Industries, has said the European Parliament risks stifling 3D printing innovation by introducing premature regulatory measures to protect Intellectual Property.
Desktop Metal, has been awarded seminal patents for its Separable Supports technology which make it easy to remove support structures from metal 3D printed parts.
Create It Real, a Danish 3D printing company, has established a pilot project with the Green Ship of the Future consortium to explore printing on board ships and address Intellectual Property rights.
Sigma Labs has announced the publication of a US Patent Application titled ‘Multi-sensor quality inference and control for additive manufacturing processes’.
Last week, for the third consecutive year, CECIMO organised and presented the ‘Additive Manufacturing European Conference’ (AMEC) in the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, where they delivered a strategic report on the use of AM in Europe.