Dr. William Fowlkes consults at IP.com, a software and services company that provides innovation solutions for the Intellectual Property and engineering communities.  Prior to that, Dr. Fowlkes worked for the Eastman Kodak Company as an Intellectual Property technology leader supporting Kodak’s patent related activities from IP generation to value extraction.  He is an inventor on 32 U.S. patents; he is also co-author of Engineering Methods for Robust Product Design, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.