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. (...)