Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital.
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The Emergence of Defensive Patent Commons
Posted on June 30, 2008
Today's Wall Street Journal has an article titled Tech Giants Join Together To Head Off Patent Suits. It describes the efforts of a new organization named Allied Security Trust who's goal is to buy up key intellectual property before it falls into the hands of parties that could use it against them. The named companies that have joined Allied Security Trust are Verizon, Google, Cisco, Telefon, Ericsson, and HP. Allied Security Trust appears to be an example of the emerging construct of a patent commons . There are already a number of existing patent commons such as the Patent Commons...
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