Inside Intellectual Ventures, the most hated company in tech

IV is simply milking the hole in patent system that you don't actually have to produce anything real to get the patent. The actual model they keep talking about (like laser zappers) are just "token" stuff that they can show to journalist to make case that they are not like other trolls. The fact is that IV have far many troll patents than real stuff they have built to show off.

Not sure why Nathan needs to do all these things to hurt technology world when he is already billionaire and enough money to last several generations. Person with his brain power could do much better things for tech world. He is in essence showing patent trolls how to be socially acceptable even if you are doing the bad stuff for the current and next generations. He has innovated successful trolling business model that is going to hurt a lot to humanity at the personal gain of trolls.

IV is legitimization of patent trolling in the same way lobbing is legitimization of bribery in political system.