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On Intellectual Ventures

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

One finds a very negative take on Intellectual Ventures at PatentFools, including

Just like in the story-line of Independence Day, where the alien death ships slowly but surely positioned themselves over each major city, with the eventual outcome well understood, so too is Intellectual Ventures (I.V.) slowly positioning itself as the patent overlord over many major industry segments. Just like in the movie, the eventual outcome is well understood. To wit: Complete usurpation of the U.S. Patent system. The outcome is a ,gigantic tax/toll collector controlling the pulse of innovation in the U.S. or, like the move, extermination of innovation.

Full post as published by IPBiz on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).