Elon Musk, the CEO of Telsa Motors, recently announced that Tesla is making its patents freely available to anyone to use. This is great news and certainly an indication of why patents matter. Read More

Today we announced a partnership with Robotic Vision Technologies, the latest in a series of collaborations we have announced with innovative small or medium sized companies. Read More

As we close the books on 2013, we look back on a remarkable year in which the modern marketplace for invention – a market we helped pioneer – really began to come into its own. Read More

For years, IV has been talking to CEOs, CFOs, and CTOs about the value of intellectual property. We believe the issue being discussed in America’s boardrooms—in companies of all sizes and across industries—is not whether patents matter, but how they matter. 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