In a letter this week to lawmakers in Congress, the founders of Intellectual Ventures strongly endorsed legislation that would penalize those who threaten law-abiding businesses with frivolous and often fraudulent “demand letters” that allege patent infringement. Read More

We’ve often wondered: If “patent trolls” and the “explosion” of lawsuits are strangling innovation as some critics claim, then why are the most blazingly innovative industries also the ones with the most new patents and lawsuits? Read More

We asked IV's Troy Niehaus how a 22-year career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and a decade of coaching baseball and softball has helped shape his search across a huge range of technologies to find and purchase the next-generation of inventions. Read More

Intellectual Ventures announced today that it has signed a license agreement with Asia Optical of Taiwan. The deal provides Asia Optical with a license to the Kodak patent portfolio acquired by IV in 2013. Read More

As this year comes to a close, I want to take the opportunity to look back and recognize some of the extraordinary events and milestones from 2013. Read More