Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., a registered Patent Attorney, is a graduate from Clarkson College of Technology (B.S. E.E.) of Potsdam, New York, and Franklin Pierce Law Center (J.D.) of Concord, New Hampshire. He is the author of Claims to Fame & Fortune, Five Simple Truths About Inventions, Innovations, and Entrepreneurship, and Parts of a U.S. Patent Application and is a former associate of Hopgood, Calimafde, Kalil, Blaustein and Judlowe of New York City and Hoffmann & Baron of Jericho, New York.