1. How should 3D printing be viewed from an IP perspective?

For Anne-Laure Sellier, Associate Professor of Marketing at HEC Paris, the invention of a kind of three-dimensional photocopier by Professor Tournesol in the 1972 comic strip "Tintin and the Shark Lake" is "no longer a fantasy", and there's no doubt that 3D printing augurs a disruptive technology that will transform industry by 2025 . Individuals are now competing with industries, with the risk that the former will suffer the full force of IP, even if it means triggering the "third world copyright war", according to Martin Untersinger, a journalist...