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Musical science: David Grossman, assistant director of George Mason University's Office of Technology Transfer, has designed rockets and violins, including the one he plays.View Larger
David Grossman has been a toy designer for Fisher-Price, developed neon-lit electronic fiddles, programmed rockets for NASA, invented technology that prevents camcorders from pirating movies in theaters and is the holder of 10 patents on top of all that.At least by last week's count.
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As assistant director of the Office of Technology Transfer at George Mason University, Grossman works with professors and students to analyze their research, figure out what parts are patentable and find ways to get them in front of business leaders and investors to move ideas into the marketplace.
In 1996, he was working on the NASA Orbital X-34 rocket plane when he adopted a daughter from China.The long hours of living in the office next to the rocket and always being on call no longer held their old appeal.
Around the same time, Grossman was flipping through an electronic engineering trade journal and spied an ad that basically claimed, "You too can practice patent law."No law degree was required (although he now holds one from American University).Applicants had to have engineering degrees and be able to pass a patent bar exam.
The idea intrigued him."I figured I could pass an exam," Grossman says.He went on to form a patent prosecution consultancy, eventually picking up George Mason University as a client in 1999.When he decided he wanted to go full time again, the university quickly offered him a job in early 2005.
Grossman describes the patent-chasing process in an engineerlike three steps: Step one: File application.
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