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W. Todd Baker
Partner W. TODD BAKER is a patent attorney in the firm's Reissue/Reexamination, Interference, and Electrical/Mechanical Practice Groups.
As a team leader of the Reissue and Reexamination Practice Group, a significant portion of Mr. Baker’s practice involves post grant proceedings handled by the USPTO’s Central Reexamination Unit including ex parte and inter partes reexaminations.
Mr. Baker is co-chair of the firm’s Interference Practice Group. His practice includes advising clients on patent interference prosecution matters before the USPTO’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. Interference practice involves issues of priority, patentability, derivation, and inventorship. Mr. Baker’s extensive experience with both reexaminations and interferences makes him particularly well suited to advise clients on alternatives to traditional litigation based validity challenges.
In addition to his post grant practice, Mr. Baker prepares and prosecutes patent applications in diversified electrical and mechanical technologies. He is a former patent examiner with the USPTO, where he specialized in multiplex communications.
Mr. Baker is currently the chair of the USPTO Inter Partes Patent Proceedings Committee (formerly known as the Interference Committee) of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. The Interference Committee was renamed and its mission revised to reflect a broadened scope encompassing interferences as well as inter partes reexamination.
Mr. Baker received his Law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1996 and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1993. Mr. Baker is admitted to the Maryland State Bar and is registered to practice before the USPTO.
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The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, Virginia. Apr 7, 2010 - 2009 Annual Meeting
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