Additive Fabrication Spy (TM)

Covering All Technology and Application Areas of Additive Fabrication Including:
RAPID PROTOTYPING 3D PRINTING RAPID TOOLING RAPID MANUFACTURING

Additive fabrication is becoming a major enabling technology for fields as diverse as biomedicine, dentistry, building construction, aerospace and micro-devices. It now has the potential to impact business and individual lives in profound and unforeseen ways.

Would you like to know the details of new technologies like 3D Systems' V-Flash, or Desktop Factory's low-cost machine months - even years - before they're made public?
How can you exploit the advantages of additive fabrication to generate previously impossible new products and markets?
How can you track technology and business developments that might devastate your market?
How can you establish a strategy that maximizes the value of your business?

Our readers have a window on all of this and a lot more - and without effort.
Make no mistake, this information is essentially impossible to obtain any other way. That's because the work is being carried on largely in secret and appears only in patent documents which are often intentionally buried - and if found, difficult to understand. The Additive Fabrication Spy^TM does the hard work of analyzing the thousands of pages of this new material that appears each quarter.

Today, this information is not just valuable to the engineering side of an organization.
It's also a primary tool for establishing long-term business and marketing strategies, and for gathering competitive intelligence. With more than 5,000 documents already published and hundreds more appearing each quarter, the industry has reached a level of complexity that offers potential profit for those in the know - and serious pitfalls for those that aren't.

Corporate Management & Business Strategy

Learn about new technology years before it's introduced to the market.
Gain deep insight into competitors' business and technology strategies.
Learn crucial information to help develop a long-range business strategy.
Prevent competitors from gaining control of your technology.
Block your competitors' patents and protect your market.
Determine the IP needed to use as an offensive weapon to start or threaten litigation.
Monitor your competitors' patents and applications before they're issued.
Challenge your competitors' patents before they challenge or sue you.
Avoid infringement and make certain you have freedom to operate in specific areas of technology.

Marketing & Revenue Generation

Learn about new and developing markets.
Identify opportunities to use your IP as a profit center.
Approach technology owners early about licensing and other opportunities before the full value of their IP is established.
Strategically target companies to generate revenue by licensing.
Spot new competitors, and business and technology trends that may affect you.
Rapidly identify competitive threats.

Engineering

Guide technology development.
Solve technical problems.
Prevent your competitors from designing around your critical inventions and technology.
Circumvent competitive technology and patents - design around them.
Learn the actual details of competitive R&D.
Learn about applicable university and government research.

The Additive Fabrication Spy is provided in Acrobat pdf format. You can search and review the contents very quickly to make sure you know what's happening in the complex world of additive technology.
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Patents as Key Information Sources for Competitive Intelligence and Business Strategy The days when a straightforward approach to technology protection was possible are over. A new era has begun with potential risks and rewards that extend far beyond the basic functions of patents. This thorough article tells you exactly what you need to know.

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