About Bob Hansen

Bob Hansen is co-managing partner of The Marbury Law Group. Starting his career as a nuclear engineer and a “rocket scientist,” Bob spent the past 20 years as a patent attorney protecting intellectual property and advising investors, entrepreneurs and inventors in a dozen different ‘state of the art’ technologies. Bob started the Brain Machine Interface Law Blog because such technologies could be the next disruptive technology with the potential for huge impact on our economy and daily lives. Bob hopes to share his extensive experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, engineering, and business managements with those pushing the new state-of-the-art in the exciting domain of brain machine interface technologies.

How to Obtain a Patent

The monopoly in a novel invention conveyed to the owner a patent is granted in exchange for inventors publicly disclosing their invention in a patent application, which the government soon publishes for all to see.  [...]

By |2019-09-12T12:07:41-04:00September 12th, 2019|

How To Recognize Patentable Inventions

Many engineers and scientists fail to appreciate when they have conceived of a patentable invention, perhaps presuming that if they came up with the idea, someone else must have done so already.  Many believe [...]

By |2019-09-12T12:04:53-04:00September 1st, 2019|

What Can Be Patented?

Patents can be very important forms of intellectual property to startup companies, as well as large corporations.  However, patents are not perfect for many forms of intellectual property.  Not every invention is eligible for patenting, [...]

By |2019-08-21T23:02:30-04:00August 21st, 2019|

Types of Intellectual Property

The term “Intellectual Property” generally refers to the value created in human inventions and mental efforts, as opposed to value created through manual labor and following the instructions of others.  Through its legal protections, intellectual [...]

By |2019-08-21T23:01:03-04:00August 21st, 2019|
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