Roger Rathbun has a technical background in mechanical engineering. Mr. Rathbun was employed by The BOC Group, Inc, an industrial gas company for about 30 years. During that time he worked for various divisions, including a cryogenics division that involved expanders, heat exchange equipment, turbines; a gases division that included gas separation plants, and a medical products division that included a wide range of electromechanical equipment, including medical ventilators, anesthesia machines, patient monitors, inhalant anesthetics, flowmeters, valves, hydraulic systems, catheters, IV devices, and the like.

He received his law degree in 1965 from Georgetown University. He also received a masters in law from New York University focusing in trade regulation. His undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering was received in 1959 from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass.

Mr. Rathbun has been a registered patent attorney since 1965 and has written and prosecuted hundreds of patents, both U.S. and foreign.