Netlist, Inc. announced the appointment of Marc Frechette as Netlist's Chief Licensing Officer. Mr. Frechette has more than eighteen years of licensing and patent prosecution experience and most recently served as Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel at WiLAN, where he managed their U.S.-based licensing business unit. Prior to WiLAN, Mr. Frechette was Senior Vice-President at Acacia Research Corporation where he managed patent licensing, patent litigation and patent prosecution. He has also held legal positions at Crockett & Crockett, P.C., at Discovision Associates (a division of Pioneer Electronics) and at Conexant Systems. During his career he has licensed and conducted patent prosecution on a broad range of semiconductor technologies.