Intellectual Ventures

Building an Invention Marketplace

Many companies face an innovation gap that can affect their ability to stay competitive. At Intellectual Ventures, we help companies manage risk and maintain an innovation edge via access to talent, technology, research, and our service offerings.

Intellectual Ventures (IV) has built one of the largest and fastest-growing invention portfolios in the world, with more than 30,000 Intellectual Property assets currently under management and thousands more being added every year. We’ve invested in a diverse range of technologies, including agriculture, automotive, communications, computer hardware, construction, consumer electronics, eCommerce, energy, financial services, health technologies, information technology, life sciences, materials science, medical devices, nanotechnology, physical sciences, security, semiconductors, and software.

Potential benefits of working with INTELLECTUAL VENTURES:

• Efficient source for invention rights—now and in the future
• Access to our acquisitions channel to source and buy relevant Intellectual Property
• Augment invention/R&D efforts through buying and building Intellectual Property
• Monetize underutilized Intellectual Property assets in your portfolio
• Mitigate potential threats by partnering on defensive strategy

Products and Services

Licensees to Intellectual Ventures’ portfolio can gain access to additional services aimed at helping companies manage current and future Intellectual Property needs. These services include proactively acquiring relevant Intellectual Property needed to better protect against litigation threats. Our services can be tailored to meet your company’s specific needs. Examples of Intellectual Ventures’ products and services include:

• Purchasing a nonexclusive license to relevant IV portfolio(s) on a term or life-of-patent basis
• Purchasing an exclusive license (subject to pre-existing licenses) to selected IV invention(s) on a term or life-of-patent basis
• Accessing Intellectual Property to use as defense against the threat of corporate assertions
• Leveraging IV’s sophisticated acquisition capabilities to gain access to inventions of particular interest to you
• Using IV as a financing source for mergers & acquisitions (M&A) whereby IV agrees to purchase a target company’s Intellectual Property to “bridge” the acquirer’s effective offer
• Creating new inventions in conjunction with IV’s inventors and invention process

Want to learn more about our products and service offerings? Our team will work with you to discover how we can best meet your Intellectual Property needs. Contact us: BusinessDevelopment@intven.com