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Its called Coffee Flour, and its the creation of Intellectual Ventures and the recently formed CF Global Holdings, an ominous-sounding company led by Dan Belliveau, a former Starbucks logistics expert. You probably recognize Intellectual Ventures for its public image as a patent troll, a company thats made a business out of patents and not products. Thats an apt term for the most part: Intellectual Ventures has largely either struck licensing deals or gotten into legal battles with some of the biggest names in technology, rather than making and selling the inventions it creates or acquires from inventors. But a lesser-known part of IVs business is the Invention Development Fund, a collection of individuals, schools, and businesses that exchange some of the ownership of their creations for access to IVs growing pool of resources.