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| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Patent monetization |
| Founded | 2000  |
| Founder | Nathan Myhrvold Edward Jung Peter Detkin Gregory Gorder |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 10 |
Number of employees | 800 |
| ASN | 6216 |
| Website | www.intellectualventures.com |
Intellectual Ventures is an American private equity company that centers on the development and licensing of intellectual property. Intellectual Ventures is one of the top-five owners of U.S. patents, as of 2011.[1] [verification needed] Its business model focuses on buying patents and aggregating those patents into a large patent portfolio and licensing these patents to third parties. The company has been described as the country's largest and most notorious patent trolling company,[2] the ultimate patent troll,[3] and the most hated company in tech.[4]
In 2009, the firm launched a prototyping and research laboratory, Intellectual Ventures Lab,[5] which attracted media controversy when the book SuperFreakonomics described its ideas for reducing global climate change. The firm also collaborates on humanitarian projects through its Global Good program.[6]
- ^ "Intellectual Ventures: Revealing Investors ", Patently-O blog, May 18, 2011. Consulted on May 21, 2011.
- ^ "RPX and the complicated business of stockpiling patents for good, not evil". Pando. 9 September 2013.
- ^ Robertson, Adi (4 February 2014). "The ultimate patent troll is going to trial against Google and Motorola". The Verge.
- ^ Kerstetter, Jim. "Inside Intellectual Ventures, the most hated company in tech". CNET.
- ^ "Bellevue lab is an inventor's real dream" by Brier Dudley, The Seattle Times - 27 May 2009
- ^ "Global Good". www.intellectualventures.com. Retrieved 2016-06-16.