Peter Kramer
is a former research scientist and university professor who founded Ingenium Patents LLC which specializes in providing services to inventors and companies developing new products. In addition to patent drafting and prosecution they conduct critical research into patent and non-patent literature required by R&D managers and technical personnel. Peter is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Dr. Kramer has been awarded the National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health, USA. (1985) and National Science Foundation instrumentation grant, Principal Investigator (1992). He is coauthor of Human Physiology, Biochemistry and Basic Medicine and has published numerous peer reviewed research papers in the field of enzymology. He is also a member of the American Chemical Society, AAAS, and Mensa, and is a pretty good C#/.NET/Windows Forms programmer.
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