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(→External links: * [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/technology/18patent.html Turning Patents Into ‘Invention Capital’], 2010, New York Times) |
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures Wikipedia's page on Intellectual Ventures] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures Wikipedia's page on Intellectual Ventures] | ||
* [http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/index.php/Intellectual_Ventures BoycottNovell's page on Intellectual Ventures] | * [http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/index.php/Intellectual_Ventures BoycottNovell's page on Intellectual Ventures] | ||
| + | * [http://techdirt.com/articles/20100217/1853298215.shtml Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown] | ||
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/technology/18patent.html Turning Patents Into ‘Invention Capital’], 2010, New York Times | * [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/technology/18patent.html Turning Patents Into ‘Invention Capital’], 2010, New York Times | ||
| + | ** That article was a follow-on from IV's blog [http://hbr.org/2010/03/the-big-idea-funding-eureka/ar/1 The Big Idea: Funding Eureka!] | ||
| + | ** For a rebutal, see [http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2010/02/software-patents-are-the-problem-not-the-answer.php Software patents are the problem not the answer] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 11:04, 21 February 2010
Intellectual Ventures can most kindly be called an "patent assertion cartel",[1] but is often called a patent troll.
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Patent trolls
- Similar organisations: Blackboard inc., Acacia Research Corporation
External links
- FFII's news about the launch of Intellectual Ventures
- Wikipedia's page on Intellectual Ventures
- BoycottNovell's page on Intellectual Ventures
- Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown
- Turning Patents Into ‘Invention Capital’, 2010, New York Times
- That article was a follow-on from IV's blog The Big Idea: Funding Eureka!
- For a rebutal, see Software patents are the problem not the answer
