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Born in Boston, Rines earned a B.S. in physics from M.I.T. After serving as an Army Signal Corps officer, he received a law degree from Georgetown in 1946 specializing in patent law. In 1972 he completed a Ph.D. thesis at Chiao Tung University in the Republic of China.
Rines, who holds more than 60 patents, has also written music for more than 10 Broadway and off-Broadway shows. He has been Gordon McKay Lecturer on Patent Law at Harvard and Lecturer on Invention, Patents, and Innovation at M.I.T. He has served on the Technical Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He founded the Academy of Applied Science stimulating innovation in children and adults and the Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire. He also helped establish an invention-encouraging patent system in mainland China. In 1972, using the same technology and borrowed cameras, Rines performed a scientific sonar search for the Loch Ness monster; though the images seem to show a large flipper and body, the results were not fully conclusive.
You have the ideas. We have the resources. Together, we can bring your product idea to life. Learn more: EdisonNation.com
Born in Boston, Rines earned a B.S. in physics from M.I.T. After serving as an Army Signal Corps officer, he received a law degree from Georgetown in 1946 specializing in patent law. In 1972 he completed a Ph.D. thesis at Chiao Tung University in the Republic of China.
Rines, who holds more than 60 patents, has also written music for more than 10 Broadway and off-Broadway shows. He has been Gordon McKay Lecturer on Patent Law at Harvard and Lecturer on Invention, Patents, and Innovation at M.I.T. He has served on the Technical Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He founded the Academy of Applied Science stimulating innovation in children and adults and the Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire. He also helped establish an invention-encouraging patent system in mainland China. In 1972, using the same technology and borrowed cameras, Rines performed a scientific sonar search for the Loch Ness monster; though the images seem to show a large flipper and body, the results were not fully conclusive.
