3Scan’s Nada Rastad: crossing the line and patenting robotics

Given the novel applications of emerging technologies such as robotics, it might be assumed that obtaining patents will be easy. But, as Nada Rastad, general counsel at 3Scan, has discovered, that’s not quite true.

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