Publications

Baker, Richard, You Can’t Live Forever, Caring for Your Clients After You Die, NAPP Blog (June 16, 2021).

Baker, Richard, Texas Could Take Page from Mass.'s Judicial Selection Book, Law360 (November 13, 2019).

Pascarella, Mark and Richard Baker, 11 intellectual property tips every entrepreneur must know, CoFounders Labs webinar (June 21, 2016).

Joseph Casino, William Cory Spence, Ted Curtin and Rich Baker, Innovating the Unknown – Innovative and fresh ideas for licensing products and developing “white space” growth opportunities, Panel discussion at the Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) Spring Meeting in Houston (April 27, 2016).

Lee, Michael and Richard Baker, Impact of IPRs and CBMs on US Business, Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) Webinar (February 17, 2016).

Baker, Richard, et al, Which IP Issues Ducked The Radar In 2015?, Law360 Blog (December 22, 2015).

Baker, Richard, et al, Could Courts Enable Cheaper Challenges To NPE Claims?, Law360 Blog (October 29, 2015).

Baker, Richard, et al, What Are Your IP Litigation Landmines?, Law360 Blog (September 11, 2015).

Baker, Richard, et al, Do The Proposed AIA Rule Changes Go Far Enough?, Law360 Blog (August 29, 2015).

Baker, Richard, et al, With High Court Mum On Java Copyrights, Is Innovation Safe?, Law360 Blog (July 2, 2015).

Baker, Richard, et al, Where Do We Stand One Year After Alice?, Law360 Blog (June 15, 2015).

Baker, Richard, America Invents Act Cost the US Economy over $1 Trillion, Patently-O Blog (June 8, 2015), also published at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2616023. Cited in Oil State’s brief for certiorari to the US Supreme Court, cited in A. Abbott, Hon Randall Rader, et al., “Crippling the Innovation Economy: Regulatory Overreach at the Patent Office”, released by the Regulatory Transparency Project of the Federalist Society, August 14, 2017, and has been circulated in the US House and Senate. 

Baker, Richard, End of the American Inventor, Washington Times (April 28, 2015).

Michel, Judge Paul, Gene Quinn, Richard Baker, Ramifications of a Political Patent System, Innography Webinar (November 13, 2014).

Baker, Richard, HTS 2014 Deal of Distinction Motorola-Google-Lenovo Deal, LES Insights (November 4, 2014).

Blumberg, Ira,  Jeff Osterman, Josh McGuire, Daniel Ilan, Kirk Dailey and Richard Baker (moderator), HTS 2014 Deal of Distinction Motorola-Google-Lenovo Deal, Presentation at the Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) Annual Meeting in San Francisco (October 8, 2014).

Baker, Richard, Scott Bechtel, and Michael Femal, What to do when….how to handle the unexpected, Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) Webinar (September 10, 2014).

Baker, Richard, Licensing, litigating, and lessons from the trenches, Presentation to the Licensing Executives Society UNH Law Chapter in Concord, NH (April 7, 2014)

Baker, Richard, Timothy Lynch, Robert Heath, and Ken Lustig, HTS 2013 Deal of Distinction:  Kodak-IV-RPX Deal, Presentation at the Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (September 25, 2013).

Baker, Richard, The 2013 Frank Barnes Mentoring Award presentation to Don Drinkwater,  Award presentation at the Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (September 25, 2013).

Baker, Richard, and Sarah Harris, HTS 2012 Deal of Distinction:  AOL-Microsoft-Facebook Deal, Presentation at the Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) Annual Meeting in Toronto (October 14, 2012).

Baker, Richard, Beyond PIPA/SOPA:  How can legislators deal with piracy?, web article published on the Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) web page (2012). 

Baker, Richard (Moderator), Mitch Stoltz, Chris Katopis, and Brian O’Shaughnessy, Beyond PIPA/SOPA:  How can legislators deal with piracy? Panel at the Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) Winter Meeting (March 13, 2012).

Baker, Richard (Moderator), Joe Cote, Steve Frank, and Bryan Lord, What’s happening in New England?  Local deals in 2011 and 2012, Panel at a Licensing Executives Society Boston Chapter meeting (March 8, 2012).

Baker, Richard, Sparking innovation in the next generation,  Presentation to the Boston IEEE Life Members (November 22, 2011). 

Baker, Richard, IP risk assessments -a pragmatic approach to avoiding problems, IAM Magazine (November/December 2011) Issue 50. 

Daniele, Joe, Don Merino and Richard Baker Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Patents Sales and Patent Transactions, Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) Webinar (October 12, 2011).

Steck, Lydia and Linda Corcoran, The Role of Valuation in IP Management, IAM Magazine (September/October 2011) Issue 49. [Interview of Ada Nielsen, Tanya Moore, Bill Elkington, and Rich Baker]Baker, Richard, Creating an IP Defensive Web, Presentation at the 8th ipCapital Group Leadership Conference (November 3, 2010).

Baker, Richard (Moderator), Sherry Knowles, Lesley Millar, Tom Miller, Ray Niro, IP100 Recap - IP Hot Topics 2010, Panel at the Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada) Annual Meeting in Chicago (September 28, 2010). 

Baker, Richard and Ada Nielsen (Co-Moderators), Paul Betten, David Hetzel, Chip Murray, Martha Ries, Defining and re-defining Organizational Structure and Alignment To Support Deal Making, Panel at the Licensing Executives Society IP100 Executive Forum in Chicago (September 26, 2010). 

Baker, Richard, Politically Speaking, Toastmasters Magazine (June 2010) 5. 

Baker, Richard and David Baker, Personal 3-D Printers, Presentation to the New England Model Engineering Society (March 4, 2010). 

Baker, Richard(Moderator), James Skippen, Stephen McGrath, Katharine Ku, T. Rao Coca, Business Defense Strategies to Deal with Patent Assertions, NPEs and Potential or Real Litigation, Panel at the Licensing Executives Society IP100 Executive Forum in Phoenix (February 9, 2010). 

Baker, Richard, Acceptance Speech - 2009 LES Licensing Achievement Award, At the 2009 Licensing Executives Society Annual Meeting (October 21, 2009). 

Baker, Richard and Michael Femal Best Practices in Licensing: Intellectual Property Policy, Workshop presented at the Licensing Executives Society Annual Meeting (October 20, 2008). 

Baker, Richard, Baker challenges Tierney to debate, Wakefield Observer (October 17, 2008).

Baker, Richard, My view:  Bailout a recipe for disaster, Salem News (September 30, 2008).

Baker, Richard, Patent Models, Presentation to the New England Model Engineering Society (August 7, 2008).

Baker, Richard, Energy woes call for creative short-, long-term solutions, Salem News (July 15, 2008).

Baker, Richard, My view:  Oil independence requires more drilling, Salem News (June 30, 2008).

Baker, Richard, Baker on GOP ballot for Congress, Newburyport Daily News (May 30, 2008).

Baker, Richard, Baker to run against Tierney, Ipswich Chronicle (April 3, 2008).

Baker, Richard, A Patent Seller's Prospective, Seminar at the Fall 2007 Ocean Tomo Auction in Chicago (October 24, 2007). 

Baker, Richard, Sandeep Agawal, Gene Partlow, Brian Cummings, and Halina Dziewit, Creating and Leading World Class Licensing Office, Add On Seminar at the Licensing Executives Society 2007 Annual Meeting in Vancouver (October 18, 2007). 

Baker, Richard (Moderator), Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, Barbara Gyure, Brian Fairchild, M. Andrea Ryan, Ronald L. Grudziecki, Richard W. Erwine, Protecting Cutting-Edge and Emerging Technologies, Panel at the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Spring Meeting in Boston (May 10, 2007). 

Baker, Richard, Auctions - A Patent Sellers Prospective, Presentation to the Greater Washington, DC Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (March 7, 2007). 

Baker, Richard, Evonne Inglesh, David Marston and Eric Stein, Top 10 Compliance Best Practice Tips to Avoid Being Taken, Workshop presented at the Licensing Executives Society Annual Meeting(September 12, 2006). 

Baker, Richard, Is the Duty to Disclose Still Needed?, Intellectual Property Today(September 2005) 21-23. 

Baker, Richard, Campaign Literature, For the position of West Newbury Representative to the Pentucket Regional School Committee, (April 23, 2005)

Baker, Richard, Press Release announcing my campaign for Pentucket Regional School Committee, West Newbury News (April 23, 2005)

Baker, Richard, Three web server architectures aid plant-floor, enterprise integration, Control Engineering (March 2001). 

Baker, Richard, Inventing the Web PLC: Inspiration, Innovation, and Opportunity, Machine Design (November 16, 2000), 94-98. 

Baker, Richard, Managing a stable organization, Today's Engineer 3,3 (3rd Quarter 2000), 20-23. 

Baker, Richard, Campaign Literature, For the position of West Newbury Town Meeting Moderator, (April 25, 2000)

Baker, Richard, Press Release announcing my campaign for West Newbury Town Meeting Moderator, West Newbury News (Feb 15, 2000)

Baker, Richard, The corporate politics of CMM ratings, Commun. ACM 39, 9 (Sept. 1996), 105-106. 

Baker, Richard, Code Reviews Enhance Software Quality, 1997 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Boston May 18-23, 1997. 

Dreyfack, Raymond and Richard Baker, Employees are responsible for their own well being, Plant Engineering 50, 3 (Mar 1996)

Baker, Richard, Software Engineering at Modicon, Lecture at the University of Maine, Orono (Oct 7, 1996)

Baker, Richard, MKS Ensures Safety of Mission Critical Software for Modicon Engineering, White Paper for Mortice Kern Systems, Inc (June 1996)