{"id":2469,"date":"2023-04-27T21:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thompsonpatentlaw.com\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2023-05-04T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:58:20","slug":"client-success-story-banner-engineering-richard-bragg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thompsonpatentlaw.com\/client-success-story-banner-engineering-richard-bragg\/","title":{"rendered":"Client Success Story: Banner Engineering & Richard Bragg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, the prestigious Vanguard magazine released an article highlighting one of our long-time clients and collaborators, Mr. Richard Bragg<\/a><\/em>, who is the general counsel of Banner Engineering<\/a><\/em>, one of the world’s leading corporations in process and industrial automation.<\/p>\n

The article is titled “Demystifying the Process of Protecting Inventions”<\/a>. It discusses how Mr. Bragg was able to bridge the existing gap between engineers and IP (Intellectual Property) attorneys when discussing the invention claims and technicalities. Once he was appointed in 2014 as Banner’s senior manager of legal and compliance, he worked on a hands-on approach to communicate directly with the engineers to formulate the claims that would get patented.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bragg, in a search for streamlining Banner Engineering’s patenting process, developed a systematic approach in collaboration with Thompson Patent Law to speed up the overall claiming process. The process requires three steps, which are as follows:<\/p>\n