Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes
by MattGrommes on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:52PM
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It might be uncharitable to say but it's always been my opinion that their lab and token inventions are cover for their patent trolling activities. Actual inventions from their people are few and far between.
Unfortunately IV purchased all the patents of a company I used to work for, General Magic, after it died. Several of us wanted to open-source Magic's source code, but we'd potentially face prosecution from IV if we did. So much cool stuff there, it's really a pity.
as a side note i remember reading something about some patent trolls using money from suits to actually drive development of promising patents. i do not remember if this was optimism about their true intent or full bs...now i will have to go hunt that down.
Also interesting, I thought Intellectual Ventures was only a patent troll, I didn't know they did actual research work as well.