Patent Engineering

About the Author

Dr. Donald S. Rimai recently retired from Eastman Kodak, where he worked as a researcher and intellectual property manager in digital printing and adhesion science. He is expert at developing patent portfolios and helping inventors patent their inventions. He is an Eastman Kodak Distinguished Inventor with more than 150 U.S. patents and over 120 scientific publications. Don has published five books and edited two conference proceedings, is a Fellow of the Adhesion Society and of the American Physical Society, and has won the Charles Ives and Chester Carlson Awards. Don holds a BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. In 2014 Dr. Rimai received the Inventor of the Year Award from the Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association.