John Cronin

ipCreate is the brainchild of John Cronin, the former chief of IBM’s Patent Factory, and Marshall Phelps, who turned both IBM and Microsoft’s once-anemic patent licensing operations into multi-billion-dollar businesses. These respected patent visionaries know first-hand that the greatest value in the IP asset class belongs to a small minority offoundational patents.John Cronin is Chairman and CEO of ipCreate, where he brings more than 30 years of IP creation and monetization experience to bear in patenting the Next Big Thing. While at IBM in the 1990s, Mr. Cronin served as its top inventor and chief of IBM’s legendary Patent Factory, where he helped the firm become a patent holder in both numbers of patents (up 500%) and in the quality of the visionary inventions for which IBM is famous.