3D打印技术在改变制造业基础设施的配置、原材料的供应链和产品销售模式的同时,也对现行专利法律制度形成了冲击和挑战。在3D打印技术领域,如何在激励创新与防止潜在的非法复制之间实现平衡,廓清合法的“修理”和不合法的“再造”之间的界限以及以“非生产经营目的”的个人打印是否构成侵权等问题亟待专利法律制度的回应。面对3D打印技术带来的机遇与挑战,立法者应重新审视《专利法》的制度基础,在平衡技术革新和其他社会、经济价值的基础上,推动3D打印技术和专利法律制度间的互动演进式发展。
3D printing technology is altering the traditional allocation of manufacturing infrastructure, raw material supply chain and the model of sales activity. It challenges the existing patent law. In the field of 3D printing technology, the patent system is expected to respond to some issues, including how to achieve a balance between the prevention of illegal use and innovation incentive, how to clear the boundaries of legal “repair” and illegal “reconstruction”, how to define “non- commercial purposes” and so on. For new opportunities and challenges raised by 3D printing technology, legislators should re-examine the foundation of the patent system and push the interactional and evolutionary development of 3D printing technology and patent law on the basis of balancing technology innovation and other social and economic value.