2015-01-08|Patexia: Quorum Contest

PROBLEM

3D Printing

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US7051654 B2: "Ink-jet printing of viable cells" (3D Bioprinting)

With the broad range of potential applications, which 3D Printing patent will be the most important in the next 10 years and why?

In the last 30 years (1985-2014), the following 3 patents turned out to be the most important patents for creating a boom of growth in the 3D Printing industry.
- US4575330 A: "Apparatus for production of three-dimensional objects by stereolithography"
  - Publication date: 1986-03-11
  - Referenced by (665)
  - Owner name: 3D SYSTEMS, INC.
  - Subject Matter: Stereolithography
- US4863538 A: "Method and apparatus for producing parts by selective sintering"
  - Publication date: 1989-09-05
  - Referenced by (405)
  - Owner name: DTM CORPORATION
  - Subject Matter: Laser Sintering
- US5121329 A: "Apparatus and method for creating three-dimensional objects"
  - Publication date: 1992-06-09
  - Referenced by (326)
  - Owner name: STRATASYS, INC.
  - Subject Matter: Fused Deposition Modeling

In the next 10 years (2015-2024), 3D Bioprinting is expected to mature based on the following fundamental patent:

US7051654 B2: "Ink-jet printing of viable cells"

Publication date: 2006-05-30
Owner name: CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
Subject Matter: 3D Bioprinting

53. An array formed on a substrate from viable printed cells, wherein a gel provides structural support for said viable printed cells, wherein the density of said cells when printed is from about 0.0001 to about 1 cell per square micrometer.

The claims are brief and well-written. The limitations are within the normal range of parameters. The scope of the claims is broad and generic enough to apply not only to 3D Printing of fully functional replacement organs and tissues (skin, bone, cartilage, trachea, heart tissue such as aortic heart valves, etc.) but also to 3D Printing of food such as engineered comestible meat. There is no issue of 35 USC 101 Presumption of Validity (CLS Bank versus Alice).
It typically takes the technologies disclosed by fundamental patents more than 10 years after the publication to be fully developed and commercialized.
Therefore, US7051654 B2: "Ink-jet printing of viable cells" will be the most important 3D Printing patent with the broad range of potential applications in the next 10 years.

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