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How is the patent situation? Does a well funded startup have a chance to disrupt this field ? Because if the potential were seeing in research on fmri neurofee
by petra 11y ago
How is the patent situation? Does a well funded startup have a chance to disrupt this field ?
Because if the potential were seeing in research on fmri neurofeedback for example does work, we might be talking about something that will make virtual reality look insignificant.
One example is accelerating mental learning processes that take experienced meditators decades(they call it enlightenment which leads to development of deeply happy and caring human beings ) into a period of weeks/months of a much less intense effort, so the experience may be available to everyone, not just a rare few.
- smitec 11y agoMRI like a lot of other med tech is very heavily patented. The core tech has long since expired but any of the cutting edge work will probably have patents around it. I do believe that an MRI startup has a chance to disrupt but it may be more of an innovation in application, or accessibility than in pure technology.
- rl3 11y ago>How is the patent situation? In the original Xconomy article[0], there's this quote: “I could no longer wait. I’m still writing up the patents. But I am incredibly excited to strike off on this direction,” she says. Doesn't answer your question of course, but the fact she's already writing patents is interesting. [0] http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2016/05/06/mary-lou-jepsen-on-life-post-facebook-and-new-startup-open-water/ http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2016/05/06/mary-lou-jep...