{"id":26382,"date":"2016-06-02T11:48:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/a-host-of-soon-to-be-expired-patents-are-set-to-revolutionize-3d-printing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:08","slug":"a-host-of-soon-to-be-expired-patents-are-set-to-revolutionize-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/a-host-of-soon-to-be-expired-patents-are-set-to-revolutionize-3d-printing","title":{"rendered":"A Host of Soon-to-be-Expired Patents are Set to Revolutionize 3D Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-host-of-soon-to-be-expired-patents-are-set-to-revolutionize-3d-printing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patents filed on many pre-existing 3D printing processes are about to expire. As this occurs, it will bring on a new era in 3D printing. Machinery and material costs will plummet, and the quality of prints will increase.<\/p>\n<p>An important shift is occurring in the <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/images\/heres-3d-printing-changing-world\/\">3D printing<\/a> world: patents are expiring. Patents filed on pre-existing industrial printing processes, especially those filed at the turn of the century, have already expired or are <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/05\/15\/how-expiring-patents-are-ushering-in-the-next-generation-of-3d-printing\/\" target=\"_blank\">set to expire<\/a> in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, the case of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). The patent on FDM expired in 2009. As a result, prices for FDM printers dropped from over $10,000 to less than $1,000, which caused consumer-friendly 3D printer manufacturers\u2013 like MakerBot and Ultimaker\u2013 to pop up.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/expiring-patents-set-to-improve-3d-world\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/expiring-patents-set-to-improve-3d-world\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patents filed on many pre-existing 3D printing processes are about to expire. As this occurs, it will bring on a new era in 3D printing. Machinery and material costs will plummet, and the quality of prints will increase. An important shift is occurring in the 3D printing world: patents are expiring. Patents filed on pre-existing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67365,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26382\/revisions\/67365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}