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

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

The Bureau of Economic Analysis for the U.S. Department of Commerce will be including the value of American companies’ R&D spending and intellectual property to its calculation of gross domestic product (GDP). Read More

Raymond Hegarty recently wrote an article for Wired, depicting the essential role that aggregators have in the patent system. Read More

Earlier this week Peter Detkin participated in a workshop hosted by the FTC and DOJ exploring the impact of patent assertion entity (PAE) activities on innovation and competition and the implications for antitrust enforcement and policy. Read More