RIM Licenses 30,000 Patents From Intellectual Ventures

BlackBerry maker RIM just revealed it’s signed up to license the patent portfolio of Nathan Myhrvold’s IP firm Intellectual Ventures. This will give the company access to a lot of innovative thinking and 30,000 patents. Intellectual Ventures was founded in 2000 as a kind of innovation, invention, and IP asset library or archive, but unlike a “dead” patent hoarder, IV actually raises money (more than $5 billion so far from Fortune 500 companies and academic institutions) to action some of its ideas–most recently we saw the firm associated with a novel nuclear reactor design that could have prevented the disaster that’s befalling Japan

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RIM Licenses 30,000 Patents From Intellectual Ventures