Home 3D printers are bringing manufacturing closer to its Napster moment, presenting the same dilemma to patent holders that record companies and movie studios faced a decade ago: in a world where anybody can download your product off the Internet, how do you get paid for your intellectual property?
Objects manufactured by 3D printers stand on display at the Stratasys Ltd. factory in Rehovot, Israel, on July 28, 2013. Stratasys Ltd., a Minnesota company that owns New York-based Makerbot, is a leading force in the growing 3D movement. Ariel Jerozolimski/Bloomberg
