Each year the Licensing Executives Society honors the best intellectual property business deals. We’re honored to be recognized with a Deal of Distinction Award in High Technology. Read More

Patent intermediaries (companies that facilitate patent transactions within the IP market) are frequently portrayed as a relatively recent development, and a questionable one at that. But in fact, as a recent academic paper shows, the secondary market for invention grew out of necessity for America’s early inventors and patent-holders. Read More

Last week, our fair city of Seattle hosted the Licensing Executives Society (LES) annual Spring Meeting. LES is an independent, professional organization that facilitates global IP commerce, and their conferences always mark an important event in Intellectual Ventures’ calendar for the insight they offer into issues that span industries and invention areas. Read More

As companies incorporate more and more features and capabilities into their products, assembling a patent portfolio on their own that covers them all can be challenging. More than a dozen years ago, the founders of Intellectual Ventures recognized this serious business challenge. We raised more than $5 billion from the investment community, and built a new type of business model to address it. Read More

Since 2003, Intellectual Ventures has completed more than 1,800 acquisition deals, and today we closed one of the largest and most complex acquisitions in our history. A consortium of 12 technology companies, organized by IV and RPX, licensed and purchased a portfolio of digital imaging patents for more than $525 million from Kodak. Read More