[LINK] REVEALED: How Giant Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Does Business

[Fernando Cassia]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 03:00, TKoltai <tomk at unwired.com.au> wrote:
> Here's some of what they wrote:
> Intellectual Ventures has between 30,000 and 60,000 patents. That's a
> rough estimate. But even the low number makes Intellectual Ventures (IV)
> the 5th largest patent portfolio of any U.S. company, and 15th in the
> world.

Which shows why Sun Microsystems was right in creating a "defensive"
patent portfolio, offered for free for open source software.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sun-grants-global-open-source-community-access-to-more-than-1600-patents-54108987.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-01-27-a.html

btw: if you need more ammunition against the US patents system this
has a bunch of quotable material. :)

http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html

You´re welcome. ;)
FC

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