“An industry dedicated to financing inventors and monetizing their creations could transform the world.”
–Nathan Myhrvold, Founder and CEO

We believe ideas are valuable. At Intellectual Ventures, we invest both expertise and capital in the development of inventions. We collaborate with leading inventors and partner with pioneering companies. By providing access to our portfolio of patents, we help our customers innovate and reduce their risk by Bridging the Invention Gap™ between the invention rights they currently have and the invention rights they need.

As the global leader in the business of invention and owner of one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing patent portfolios, we are creating an active market for invention that connects buyers, sellers, and inventors. We do this by:

• Employing talented inventors here at Intellectual Ventures who work on new inventions to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
• Purchasing inventions from individual inventors and businesses and combining them into market-specific portfolios, which we then license broadly.
• Partnering with our international network of more than 3,000 inventors and helping them to monetize their inventions.