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Intellectual Ventures
Revision as of 14:39, 25 March 2010 by 108.6.28.64 (talk)
Intellectual Ventures can most kindly be called an "patent assertion cartel",[1] but is often called a patent troll. According to The Economist, in 2009 Intellectual Ventures applied for about 450 patents for its own inventions and they are among world's top 50 patent filers.[2]
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
- Ideas Are Everywhere... So Why Do We Limit Them?