ROGER RATHBUN is a registered Patent Attorney practicing in the areas of mechanical and electro-mechanical arts. He recently retired as Patent Counsel for The BOC Group, Inc., a multinational gas company having sales of 4 billion dollars. At BOC, he was responsible for several business units of BOC's subsidiary, Ohmeda Inc., relating to medical products and medical devices including anesthesia machines; medical ventilators; medical monitors; infant-care equipment; and medical devices such as catheters, injection sites and vascular access devices. His employment with BOC extended over 28 years; and during that time, he engaged in a full-range ofIntellectual Property work including Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and both Domestic and International Patent and Technology Licensing.

He received his BSME degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1959; a J.D. degree in 1965 from Georgetown University where he was an Associate Editor on The Law Review and a Masters in Law (LLM) from New York University in 1969 specializing in Trade Regulation. Mr. Rathbun is licensed to practice in the States of New Jersey and New York as well as before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

He is a member of the American Bar Association; the New Jersey State Bar Association; the New York State Bar Association; the American Intellectual Property Law Association; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.