IV's new fund bought 16% of all the packages sold in the first half of 2014. As a follow up to our article “What's Inside IV's Patent Portfolio?” we examined Intellectual Venture's recent buying practices, and in particular, buying for their new fund.

In December 2013 Intellectual Ventures (IV) took a step towards transparency by publicly listing about 33,000 of its patent assets, representing 82% of its patent monetization portfolio. Analyzing IV’s portfolio has now become a tractable problem.