company:intellectual ventures

Intellectual Ventures : l’épouvantail de la Silicon Valley - LeMonde.fr
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2013/04/02/intellectual-ventures-l-epouvantail-de-la-silicon-valley_3151924_3234.html

Intellectual Ventures achète des brevets pour les revendre aux entreprises souhaitant les utiliser ou attaquer des entreprises... Les trolls ne sont pas que dans les commentaires, certains ont trouvé des moyens pour que cela leur rapporte. Des troll au carré ! Tags : internetactu2net internetactu fing (...)

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There Are 250,000 Active Patents That Impact Smartphones; Representing One In Six Active Patents Today | Techdirt
►http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20121017/10480520734/there-are-250000-active-patents-that-impact-smartphones-representing-one-s

la bulle des #brevets #téléphonie #mobile

A new analysis shows just how insane the patent thicket is today. Done by “defensive” #patent aggregator RPX (they try to position themselves as the “good” version of #Intellectual_Ventures), the estimate is that a stunning250,000 active patents today impact smartphones. 250,000. As the article notes that’s one in six active patents today — and for an industry that is certainly less than 1% of US GDP.

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Revealed : How Giant Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Does Business
►http://www.businessinsider.com/revealed-how-giant-patent-troll-intellectual-ventures-does-business

du nouveau sur le #troll à #brevets Nathan Myhrwold

Intellectual Ventures has between 30,000 and 60,000 #patents. That’s a rough estimate. But even the low number makes Intellectual Ventures (IV) the 5th largest patent portfolio of any U.S. company, and 15th in the world. Nearly all of those patents originated elsewhere. IV does very little inventing of its own.
It uses more than 1,200 shell companies.

Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity | The Economist
►http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/08/intellectual-property?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/patentsagainstprosperity

This recent episode of Planet Money, “When Patents Attack”, is an informative and entertaining primer on the way America’s patent system squelches competition, slows innovation, and enables egregious predation through the legal system. Please listen to this. And then tell me that Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures is not our age’s authentic villainous robber baron, making a fortune gaming America’s dysfunctional patent-law system to shake down would-be innovators.

Intellectual Ventures And The War Over Software Patents (Planet Money : NPR)
►http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138576167/when-patents-attack

Patents are a big deal in the software industry right now. Lawsuits are proliferating. Big technology companies are spending billions of dollars to buy up huge patent portfolios in order to defend themselves. Computer programmers say patents are hindering innovation.
But people at companies that have been approached by Intellectual Ventures don’t want to talk publicly. (...)