I'm Richard Baker

ABOUT ME

Richard Baker is a senior Intellectual Property licensing executive with 15 years’ experience negotiating deals and settling patent disputes. He has extensive knowledge of the corporate dynamics of licensing negotiations and is an accomplished public speaker with the ability to clearly articulate facts and opinions. Mr Baker is a Certified Licensing Professional and served as trustee of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) USA and Canada. Mr Baker is a named inventor on 27 US patents. Mr Baker works as president of New England Intellectual Property (NEIP), an IP firm specializing in patent brokerage, licensing, patent prosecution, consulting and expert witness services. He also served as the leader of an invention factory that converts ideas into the seeds for startups. Before NEIP, he spent five years at 3Com Corporation as the director of IP licensing. In 2009 the LES awarded Mr Baker’s licensing department the prestigious Licensing Achievement Award for profitable IP activities during the 2009 fiscal year. The major accomplishment in the 2009 fiscal year was the licensing and sale of patented Ethernet networking technology across several deals amounting to over $87 million in revenue. Before joining 3Com, Mr Baker was the director of intellectual property at Schneider Automation.