A arriving revolution in three dimensional printing, with average consumers able to duplicate and create new three-dimensional objects at home, may result in attempts by patent holders to expand their lawful protections, a company new paper says.

Patent holders may see three dimensional printers as threats, and they might seek to sue makers beyond your printers or even the distributors of virtual design (computer-aided design) blueprints, said the paper, from digital protection under the law put Public Knowledge.

"The features of this report is to alert the public and policymakers when it comes to the problems raised by a solutions that is still in its infancy, extremely much as person personal computers were within early 1970s," the paper said. "Existing industries could demand radical reformation of intellectual asset law, or even the development of completely new sorts of intellectual property, when confronted with widespread three dimensional printing."
(Gold Printing)