米国そしてインド Ventures？or Vultures

なんと、彼らは世界中の特許を買い漁っているようです。インドにおけるかれらの活動が記事になっています。彼らはすでに世界で8番目の規模の特許保有者だそうです。彼らの動向を真剣に調査しないとまずいかも・・・
NEW DELHI: The $5-bn US fund Intellectual Ventures (IV) is setting up base in India and has entered into agreement to buy patents from the Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore and plans to tie up with IIT Madras and other such institutes.
The company owns over 20,000 patents world-wide related to everything from lasers to computer chips and is now eyeing the 15,000 patents filed every year by various research institutes in India. The fund, founded by Microsoft’s former chief technology officer Nathan P Myhrvold (also the CEO), has roped in prof Ashok Misra, who quit as director IIT Mumbai, to join IV India as chairman...(more)

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（情報追加）from the patent prospector

Intellectual ventures from WSJ
こういう連中はベンチャーとは呼びたくないですね。

Intellectual Ventures LLC, a low-profile investment firm run by former Microsoft Corp. executive Nathan Myhrvold, is laying plans to go global: It hopes to raise as much as $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from universities in Asia.

Mr. Myhrvold said that his firm hasn't sued anybody for patent infringement but that he can't rule it out in the future.

Until now, the firm has focused mainly on buying existing patents in the U.S. -- though it has done some work overseas -- and on dreaming up new inventions in-house with its own group of experts. It has bought thousands of patents but only 26 of its own inventions have been approved so far, according to a spokeswoman...(more)