Technology companies often sell their patents to assertion entities, otherwise known as “patent trolls,” according to a study published on Oct. 20 by law professor Brian Love and the law firm Richardson Oliver Law Group.

So, what happens when you are negotiating patent peace with Intellectual Ventures (IV) and they cannot guarantee peace?

Our latest paper on Intellectual Ventures has been published in IAM Magazine (Issue #77). We look at how IV's strategy has shifted, how to reduce your risk of exposure to their portfolio, and what the future might hold for them.

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 (http://patents.intven.com/finder). Analyzing IV’s portfolio has now become a tractable problem. Kent Richardson and Erik Oliver penned an article for IAM Magazine that examines what is in the portfolio, what IV buys and what IV did after the purchases.