When Patents Attack
Intellectual Ventures recently posted a rebuttal <a href="http://intven.com/newsroom/insights/11-07-25/Disruption_Invites_Controversy.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://intven.com/newsroom/insights/11-07-25/Disruption_Invi...</a><p>They like to say things like "ideas have value" and that they are "disruptive."<p>Are there examples where the patents they own and monetize actually represent valuable "ideas" and not after the fact claims of invention?  I'm guessing not, but open to being proven wrong.<p>And who, or what, do they think they are disrupting?  Isn't IV the incarnation of the status quo?<p>Reading their website feels like reading a politicians...