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I'd like to talk to you about army boot camp and how I came to
train engineers and scientists in the army on what they need to
know about patents. I'm Rich Beem. I'm a patent attorney in
Chicago. One day I got a call from the person in charge of
training in the U.S. Army on the east coast. It turns out that
the army has 9,000 researchers, engineers, and scientists on the
east coast alone who develop advance technologies. These are
very smart people. Many of them are post-docs that have come out
of the leading universities in the country. And, this training
person saw that the engineers and scientists needed help in
understanding when they had a patentable invention and what
process they needed to go through. What kind of
information they needed to put in their invention disclosures
that would lead to the issuance of good patents. The army is
nothing if they're not about training and about metrics, and
they use patents as a metric to measure the productivity of
their inventors, their engineers, and their scientists.
So, I have conducted at least 3 - maybe 4 - training courses for
the engineers and the scientists of the army. These included
people at the army research laboratory and at the Aberdeen
proving ground, telling them about patents. And they came
from all kinds of technologies. And as a result of that training
they were able to - and they did - prepare and file more and
better invention disclosures that led to better patents
because they had a better understanding of the process. We
have done the same things for companies. I have led training
courses for Boeing. I've done training for Rolls Royce. I've
done training for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
I love talking with engineers and managers, as well as lawyers
and talking to them about the patent process. You must have
questions about the patent process. You might want to have
some training or at least to have some patent applications
prepared and filed. You might have a patent litigation matter
- that's what I do. So, call me when you have a patent matter.
I'm at 312-202-0011. Thank you!