Silicon Valley leads the world in technology but it’s losing a debate over how that technology should be used. A new surge in patent lawsuit… Read More »
A controversial investment fund run by a former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive just added more fuel to the tech industry’s runaway patent… Read More »
Google To 'Support' Android OEMs Facing Lawsuits As LG Makes A Deal With IV
By Ingrid Lunden
Nov. 9, 2011, 5:26pm
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Some heartening news for Android device makers today from the mouth of Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will continue to… Read More »
Intellectual Ventures reminded the mobile world Thursday that it too would like to collect an Android tax. The patent-holding company filed… Read More »
New Intellectual Ventures Suit Seeks Payment From Chipmakers
By Joe Mullin
Jul. 12, 2011, 9:25pm
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Intellectual Ventures, the world’s biggest patent-holding company, has sued a second set of companies, claiming its giant cache of intellect… Read More »
Intellectual Ventures Strikes Patent-Licensing Deal With Micron
By Joe Mullin
May. 31, 2011, 11:18pm
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Patent-holding giant Intellectual Ventures has struck a deal with Micron Technology, one of the largest makers of memory chips for computers… Read More »
Intellectual Ventures (IV) is one of the largest patent-holders in the country, and claims to hold more than 30,000 patents to its name. It… Read More »
Intellectual Ventures has found another licensee for its trove of mobile patents, signing a deal with mobile Web services company Dashwire i… Read More »
RIM Signs On With Intellectual Ventures For Its Patent Portfolio
By Ingrid Lunden
Mar. 30, 2011, 9:41pm
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RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has followed fellow handset makers HTC and Samsung into the arms of Intellectual Property Ventures, signing a deal with the… Read More »
Secretive Company Sues The Cable Industry, Claiming It Owns Patents On VOD
By Joe Mullin
Jan. 25, 2011, 7:09am
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Back in November, a little-known Virginia company named Pragmatus AV sued Facebook, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), LinkedIn, and Photobucket over pat… Read More »
Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures Sues Nine Companies – Who’s Next?
By Joe Mullin
Dec. 9, 2010, 3:07am
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Giant patent-holder Intellectual Ventures has filed its first set of lawsuits today. While the complaints are against computer security comp… Read More »
An obscure Virginia company, Pragmatus AV, has sued YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and Photobucket.com, claiming the companies infringe three o… Read More »
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