By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intellectual Ventures is set to square off this week against Google Incs Motorola Mobility unit in the first trial that the multibillion-dollar patent-buying firm has undertaken since it was founded. Privately-held Intellectual Ventures sued Motorola in 2011, claiming the mobile phone maker infringed patents covering a variety of […]

Intellectual Ventures has settled a patent lawsuit against chipmaker Altera Corp, leaving Xilinx Inc as the only remaining defendant in a case in which IV had claimed infringement by four semiconductor companies, according to court documents. Intellectual Ventures, which has purchased billions of dollars worth of patents, sued Altera for patent infringement in December 2010. […]