Ronald D. Slusky has been a patent professional for thirty five years and is currently in private practice in New York City. For thirteen of his thirty years at Bell Labs, he was in patent management, supervising and mentoring small and large groups of patent attorneys. Mr. Slusky is the author of several instructional booklets and is the co-author of a chapter in Advances in Image Pickup Density (Academic Press, 1981). He has a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Columbia University, a J.D. from Seton Hall University and is admitted to practice in New Jersey and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.