Intellectual Ventures, Apple, Renault: Intellectual Property
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Intellectual Ventures’ patent portfolio is the target of a new project begun by a Berkeley, California-based patent analytics firm.
IP Checkups Inc. is setting up “Case IV Thicket,” a crowd-funded crowd-sourced project aimed at revealing Intellectual Ventures’ patent portfolio and make it freely available to the public. According to IP Checkups Managing Director Matthew Rappaport, Bellevue, Washington-based IV has at least 40,000 patents, with the ownership hidden in a thicket of more than 1,200 shell companies.