3D printing is a technology that is attracting great interest from companies today. Patent applications related to additive manufacturing, the technical name for 3D printing, recorded an average annual growth of 36% over the years 2015 to 2018, analyzes the European Patent Office (EPO) in a published study July 13. Over the same period, the total growth in the number of patent applications was only 3.5%. "The rise of additive manufacturing is part of the rapid and more general increase in digital technologies," explains Antonio Campinos, President of the EPO. This confirms that the digital transformation of the economy is fully reflected in the patent applications that reach the EPO. ”
Overall, over the period from 2010 to 2018, patent applications for 3D printing exceeded 16,500 units. With a peak in the last three years, which alone account for two thirds of this total.
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