as a researcher in the area of electrophotography, I was asked to assume the responsibilities of an intellectual property manager for digital printing. My responsibilities included devising patent strategies that would protect Kodak’s technology, participating in asserting Kodak’s patents, improving the quality of our patent portfolio, and producing and prosecuting patent applications. In this role, I was fortunate to work with a world-class group of scientists, engineers, and technicians, coming from a wide variety of disciplines. The disciplines included physics, chemistry, mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering, mathematical modeling, and imaging science. Educational levels typically ranged from technical staff with associate degrees, to professionals with BS, MS, and PhDs. Most had many years of experience and routinely advanced electrophotographic and ink jet technology by solving almost intractable problems on a routine basis. The technology advanced by Kodak’s technical team members was highly innovative and allowed electrophotography to go from being limited to office copiers to its rivaling both silver halide photography and offset printing in quality, reliability, and speed, while being able to integrate the capabilities of the digital era with hard-copy printing.