Comments on: Defensive Patent Pools: There are Surprisingly Few Options http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/12/10/defensive-patent-pools-there-are-surprisingly-few-options-2/id=31233/ Patents, Software Patents, Patent Applications & Patent Law Tue, 21 May 2013 11:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Roland http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/12/10/defensive-patent-pools-there-are-surprisingly-few-options-2/id=31233/#comment-305399 Roland Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:46:28 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=31233#comment-305399 With respect to the 2011 Nortel “single-purpose consortium”, whilst the original news reports didn’t list IV as a member, given their close relationship with Microsoft it would seem odd that they weren’t involved in the purchase of the Nortel patents in 2011, if only as the administrators of the purchased patent pool. I note that IV are listed as a full member of the Apple, Microsoft and Google consortium bidding for the Kodak patents.

However, your research does provide food for though around the role IV may take in the future given it’s investors and the technology area’s it focus’es on.

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