ABOUT

Intellectual Ventures has been actively inventing since August, 2003. The company has filed thousands of patent applications in more than 50 technology areas and has thousands of ideas under consideration. The first patents were issued in November 2005, and Intellectual Ventures currently ranks in the top 50 among companies who file patents worldwide.

Intellectual Ventures' inventions span a broad range of areas including computer software and hardware, user interface design, semiconductors, biomedical devices, advanced medical procedures, digital imaging, nanotechnology, nuclear energy and advanced particle physics. We are currently pursuing invention partnerships in a variety of business development areas including energy and climate change, medical technologies, and information and computing technologies.

The internal staff includes patent experts, software engineers, physicists, biotechnologists, geologists, nuclear experts, programmers and mathematicians. As of Summer 2006, Intellectual Ventures has signed up more than 90 senior inventors who invent with us part-time. These senior inventors are some of the best minds in their respective fields. See bios of some of these inventors here.

INTELLECTUAL VENTURES LABORATORY

In May, 2009, the company officially launched the Intellectual Ventures Laboratory, a 27,500-square-foot facility in Bellevue, Washington, filled with advanced electronics, photonics and biochemistry equipment. The laboratory augments worldwide partnerships and offices by extending capabilities for advanced research and prototyping. For more information about the laboratory and its projects, please see the fact sheet.

Please visit Intellectual Ventures Lab’s website for more information on Intellectual Ventures’ in-house inventions, including work in the area of climate science.