This was posted by Postyle on the Investor Village board 
The King of the Patent Trolls has Joined the Mobile Patent War, Sues Motorola
Intellectual Ventures Joins the Mobile Patent War, Suing Motorola Mobility
October 6, 2011 at 8:21 am PT
Intellectual Ventures filed suit Thursday against Motorola Mobility, saying that the company is infringing on its patents and refuses to take a license to its technology.
The patent amassing firm, which was started by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, said it has filed suit in Delaware federal court.
“Intellectual Ventures has successfully signed licensing agreements with many of the top handset manufacturers in the world, and has been in discussions with Motorola Mobility for some time,” Chief Litigation Counsel Melissa Finocchio said in a statement. “Unfortunately, we have been unable to reach agreement on a license.”
Finocchio said the company’s preference is to negotiate deals rather than head to court, but Thursday’s move shows its willingness to do the latter.
“We have a responsibility to our current customers and our investors to defend our intellectual property rights against companies such as Motorola Mobility who use them without a license,” Finocchio said. “Our goal continues to be to provide companies with access to our portfolio through licensing and sales, but we will not tolerate ongoing infringement of our patents to the detriment of our current customers and our business.”
Of course, Intellectual Ventures is far from alone in filing mobile patent lawsuits. Oracle is suing Google, Apple is suing HTC and Samsung (and vice versa), Microsoft is suing Motorola and Barnes & Noble, to name just a few of the court actions under way.
Unlike those businesses, though, Intellectual Ventures doesn’t make products of its own, making it tough to countersue them for patent infringement. For more on the company, check out our coverage from 2008, when Myhrvold appeared at D6.
Intellectual Ventures vs. Motorola Complaint for Patent Infringement (PDF file): http://www.scribd.com/doc/67758188/IV-vs-Motorola
Source: http://allthingsd.com/20111006/intellectual-ventures-joins-the-mobile-patent-war-suing-motorola-mobility/
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IDCC / Message Board / Original Message (#57167) by postyle on 9/15/2011 12:39:21 PM
an interview with Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures. Finally, some positive counterpoint to the blatant lies put out by the BIG companies about the incessant litigation over patents.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/15/nathan-myhrvold
Very nice interview, and you should edit your category as this is certainly not off-topic and is very relevant to IDCC and the mobile sector. I liked this quote from the interview:
"All of a sudden, instead of Qualcomm (QCOM) and Nokia (NOK) in a tiff, it's Apple and Microsoft being very active. So that's a set of companies you don't think of as wireless companies that have suddenly gotten very active. I don't think you'd find any significant name in wireless that is not both collecting [patents] and paying [licensing fees] simultaneously. And as far as I can tell, this will go on forever in wireless."
Last month I posted about Nathan Myhrvold and a possible Intellectual Ventures-led consortium. We should never rule these guys out because they have a ton of funding and are true sharks when it comes to intellectual property and related acquisitions.
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