Intellectual Ventures: A Massive Patent Pyramid Scheme?

Written By
MA
Matt Asay
Sep 19, 2008

“Intellectual Ventures is out on the fund-raising trail (again –
it just raised $1 billion in late 2007), despite the fact that it
appears to have demonstrated little ability to generate cash for
anyone other than Myhrvold, even despite his amassed 20,000
patents.”

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