T R CocaThe author has a rare combination of multi-disciplined education, a kaleidoscopic professional career and rich cultural background. His first love of Physics drove him to the pinnacle of leaning of Physics, as evidenced by the degrees he earned whichinclude a B.S., M.S., M. A., and Ph.D. While working as a teacher and later as a Physicist at General Dynamics Corporation, TR pursued law to synergistically combine his rich technical background with knowledge of the U. S. laws and became an Intellectual Property attorney. TR has been admitted to practice in New York, Ohio, Vermont and the United States Patent Bar. He is admitted to practice before Federal Courts including the U. S. Supreme Court. Before being appointed as the Vice President of Intellectual Property Law at IGT, he was a Sr. Director of Litigation and Licensing at NVIDIA Corporation. Prior to that, TR worked as a senior corporate counsel at IBM where, for a period of over two decades, he held many executive and management positions in many world locations including a five-year international assignment as the Assistant General Counsel in charge of IP in IBM's Asia Pacific Headquarters based in Tokyo. Of Indian heritage, TR has synergistically combined his rich and disciplined Indian cultural upbringing with the consensus building of the Japanese tradition that he was exposed to while living in Japan and the competitive and innovative work ethic prevalent in the United States. TR presented and published innumerable papers and talks in Physics and intellectual property, and corporate law matters, including contributing a chapter on the Semiconductor Chip Protection Laws to the legal treatise Intellectual Property Litigation & Licensing. He served on the Editorial Board of the AIPLA Quarterly Journal of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. TR's varied experience has been as a teacher, physicist, software architect, lawyer, speaker, mentor and writer. Read More Read Less