Lustig article on Linked In’s Licensing Executive Society Int’l group site.
Here is a great article by one of the key figures at Intellectual Ventures. He is very convincing about how NPEs are a good thing and that the current smart phone patent wars are not unusual, considering that the original telephone patent wars involving
Alexander Graham Bell and others were fought in 587 patent suits. The fact is that when world-changing disruptive technology like the smart phone is developed the financial incentives are enormous and the incremental advances that led to the commercialization of the technology have to be sorted out to determine how the financial bonanza pie is split.