Tech patent hoarder Intellectual Ventures to lose a fifth of its trolls

Notorious patent troll license enforcer Intellectual Ventures has fallen on hard times, it seems, with Bloomberg reporting mass layoffs at the company. According to this report, 20 per cent of the company's 700 staff will be looking for other non-practising entities to work for. That would mean between 130 and 140 of the …

[alwarming]

Call me a grave dancer.

Because that's what I feel like doing.

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know why ...

.. but sadness at this news seems to elude me ...

[Yes Me]

Couldn't happen to a nastier company

I'm sad that it's only 20% though.

[Decade]

Hard times... for the lawyers

The Bloomberg report of hard times, that is just speculation. Anybody else see that Humans Need Not Apply video? Jung is saying that IV has automated the lawyers out of a job.

[sniperpaddy]

Schadenfreud

SCHADENFREUD !!!!

I so rarely get to use that word :)

[thomas k.]

Re: Schadenfreud

It's spelled schadenfreude.

[J__M__M]

Re: Schadenfreud

But it's pronounced schadenfreud.

[VinceH]

Re: Schadenfreud

Yeah, but it's still spelt schadenfreude! :)

[Vic]

Re: Schadenfreud

But it's pronounced schadenfreud.

Not in German, it isn't...

Vic.