Eric Raciti Bio

Eric Raciti has more than 25 years of experience advising companies as a trusted advisor on intellectual property matters. He received his formational training in industrial systems engineering, learning the importance of a multidisciplinary approach that includes a marriage of technology and business processes. His training and experience taught him the value of communicating clearly with management, legal, financial, and technical professionals. Eric’s extensive background in IP law includes patent portfolio development, intellectual property enforcement, technology counseling, strategic commercialization strategies, corporate IP policy, technology acquisitions, risk mitigation and due diligence for fund-raising and investment rounds. Based in Boston, his experience with large corporate environments as well as conception-stage startups has given him broad perspective over a range of intellectual property issues, and allows him to find pragmatic and creative solutions to complex problems, as well as the efficient realization of client goals. A frequent speaker on intellectual property matters, Eric has delivered dozens of seminars across North America and Europe on a wide range of topics to audiences of lawyers, business managers and engineers. As a young lawyer before joining Finnegan, Eric worked at prominent Boston general practice firms, learning the role of intellectual property in a general corporate practice, focusing on licensing, transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. Earlier in his career, Eric worked as a patent examiner for five years at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the field of medical devices, and later, after earning his masters of laws degree, for the commissioner of patents in the Office of Legislative and International Affairs. Eric served as an adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, where he taught a course on technology licensing. Eric was selected as one of the Top 100 Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Attorneys by LMG Clean Technology and Renewable Energy and recognized by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) for his practice in Massachusetts.