Business and Legal Issues in Additive Manufacturing

Join McLane Law and ACTION - the Association of Cleantech Incubators of New England - for

• Fabio M. Esposito, President & CEO, Solidscape, Inc.
• Dr. Stephen Johnson, Assistant Professor, Plastics Engineering, UMass, Lowell
• Dr. Thomas J. Webster, Department of Bioengineering, Northeastern University
• Beverly Hjorth, Intellectual Property Attorney, McLane Law Firm
• Moderated by Dr. Lin J. Hymel, Director, Intellectual Property Law Group, McLane Law Firm

Additive Manufacturing Technology

• What equipment and materials are available for additive manufacturing?
  
• How are product design blueprints made for use in additive manufacturing?
  
• What future developments are expected?
  

• What industries are taking advantage of advanced manufacturing?
  
• How is additive manufacturing replacing traditional techniques?
  
• How does additive manufacturing and availability of materials affect product design?
  
• Will additive manufacturing occur locally, nationally, or internationally?
  
• What materials are available and where are they sourced?
  
• Will replacement parts be manufactured on an as needed basis?
  
• Should consumers be able to print replacement parts?
  
• How will advanced manufacturing affect distribution networks and sales channels?
  
• What is the impact of crowd sourcing of designs?
  

• What mechanisms are available for protecting intellectual property in additive manufacturing?
  
• How can companies detect and protect against infringement of intellectual property?
  
• What legal issues are raised by open source designs?
  
• What regulatory compliance issues are raised by additive manufacturing?
  
• What environmental issues are raised by additive manufacturing?
  
• What liability issues are raised by additive manufacturing?