One of Intellectual Ventures’ investors, Izhar Armony of Charles River Ventures, appeared on TechCrunchTV’s “Ask a VC” program this week and answered questions from TechCrunch readers about a variety of VC-related topics. Read More

This week Google Inc. made a well-publicized bid of $900 million for the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks Corp., once Canada’s largest company by market capitalization. Read More

In the past few years, as the smartphone industry has surged and new operating systems have begun competing with the established market players, the industry has seen an increase in litigation commonly referred to in the press as “smartphone wars.” Read More

At IV we work with inventors and inventive companies in a variety of ways, including buying IP assets from them. Read More

A few weeks ago Edward Jung, IV’s founder and CTO, blogged about creating an invention ecosystem. IV contributes to that ecosystem in a variety of ways. One of the less known ways is to benefit companies by using financial instruments to allow them to monetize their patent portfolios. Read More