Was 2023 a good year for the patent market? We are torn. When we wrote the first draft of this year's report, the data looked gloomy. But then when we dug deeper and realised that the last year turned out not be too bad.

At the ROL Group we carefully track the packages for sale on the brokered patent market in our proprietary database.

The life of a patent broker has never been easy. Over the last year it has become even harder, with prices dropping and deal flow slowing.

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.