RPX is clearly not as bad as some of the more egregious patent trolls out there, or even patent funds like Nathan Myrhvold's Intellectual Ventures.
France, Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea have created sovereign patent funds (SPFs), in order to provide access to patented inventions by domestic manufacturing companies.
IV has a lot of company; there may well be another $15 billion out there in patent funds and licensing firms hanging over the IT sector.
One of the worst performers is Intellectual Ventures, the patent portfolio fund started by Nathan Myrhvold that has a reputation for patent extortion.
The way it raised money for its first patent-purchasing fund was equally ambidextrous.
A recent study suggests that after universities in the US were given the right in 1980 (the Bayh-Dole Act) to patent inventions (funded by the government), this resulted in a significant increase in patents and in particular in licensing of university patents (Adams et al. 2001).
Except Myhrvold, who used to be Bill Gates' right-hand man at Microsoft during the 1990s, does it through his patent-gobbling fund, Intellectual Ventures.
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