Re:Universities have turned over hundreds of patents to pate...
by tzs on Friday October 14, 2016 @11:23PM
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The author seems to be implicitly assuming that Intellectual Ventures is just a patent troll.
IV's business is much more than that. Besides buying outside commercially developed patents (similar to what a troll does), they also employ scientists and engineers directly to develop new things that IV can patent, and they fund outside researchers in exchange for patent rights.
At least some of the university patents IV has acquired were through such deals, where IV provides funding for the academic research that leads to the patent, and then IV gets commercialization rights to the patent, with the university getting a cut of any licensing fees IV gets from those patents.
IV's business is much more than that. Besides buying outside commercially developed patents (similar to what a troll does), they also employ scientists and engineers directly to develop new things that IV can patent, and they fund outside researchers in exchange for patent rights.
At least some of the university patents IV has acquired were through such deals, where IV provides funding for the academic research that leads to the patent, and then IV gets commercialization rights to the patent, with the university getting a cut of any licensing fees IV gets from those patents.