This blog quoted one of my posts in full, and in a sidebar lists the “Top 17 litigation funds.” I presume the numbers that follow the names indicate the amount raised by each fund and I presume those estimates are in US dollars. One that is missing is Juridica.
- Intellectual Ventures 400mm – 1bn
- Coller IP Fund 200mm
- NW Patent Funding Northwater Cap IP Fund 50-100mm
- Northwater Cap IP II 250mm (in progress)
- Bay Ridge partners 5mm
- New Venture Partners 275mm
- redE4 100mm (in progress)
- IP Finance Holdings 300mm
- 1790 Capital LLC 10mm-25mm
- Acacia Technologies 400mm
- Acacia Technologies 250mm (in progress)
- Rembrandt 150mm
- Ocean Tomo 200mm
- Ocean Tomo Capital II 300mm (in progress)
- Altitude Capital 250mm
- Deutsche Bank Patent 32mm
- Paradox Capital 280mm
For more on funding by third parties of litigation, click here for my recent metapost (See my post of May 21, 2009: lawsuit financing by groups with 8 references.).