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Use these links to review brief highlights of intellectual property that appeared during the period. To be fully informed of developments in RP, subscribe to The Additive Fabrication Spy.TM The Additive Fabrication SpyTM is the definitive, in-depth guide to ongoing intellectual property developments in RP. It's almost as good as having a secret agent in your competition's marketing or engineering department. In just a few minutes you can review the literally thousands of pages of material that have appeared in the last few weeks by scanning the Highlights Summary pages. The Highlights are conveniently arranged by category and directly link you to the abstract, reference information and front page drawings for each patent issued and application published for the period. Categories include technology, materials, rapid tooling, rapid manufacturing, software, medical and dental applications and business methods. RP has moved out of the laboratory and into an intensely competitive industry setting. Most of the interesting and important developments today are only being described in patents and patent applications.

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