Intellectual Ventures is a notorious patent troll, one that routinely uses shell companies to obscure the extent of its abuse of the patent system. It's disappo

Intellectual Ventures is a notorious patent troll, one that routinely uses shell companies to obscure the extent of its abuse of the patent system. It's disappointing to see ignorant people in the press continue to naively conflate "filing lots of patents" with "inventing." A piece like this that uncritically lionizes Lowell and Intellectual Ventures without even bothering to highlight or address the criticism frequently voiced against the organization feels uncomfortably one-sided if not deliberately misleading.