Intellectual Ventures co-founders Nathan Myhrvold and Edward Jung contributed an op-ed to the Wall Street Journal, discussing the Asian tech boom and its impact on Western tech interests. Read More

The lecture hall was standing-room only at Beijing’s Peking University as our co-founder and CTO Edward Jung spoke to 300 students about the importance of invention on March 10th. 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

Creating a market for intellectual property (IP) was one of our clear goals in founding Intellectual Ventures. We saw an opportunity to develop a system of buyers and sellers setting value for intellectual assets through open competitive markets where none had existed before. In just a few years this market, and IV, have grown faster than we’d ever imagined they would. Read More