Intellectual Ventures Buys Transmeta Patents
Gregory T. Huang1/28/09
Bellevue, WA-based Intellectual Ventures announced today it has acquired the patent portfolio of Santa Clara, CA-based semiconductor firm Transmeta. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Intellectual Ventures gains more than 140 U.S. patents and a “substantial number of pending patent applications,” according to a company statement. Transmeta was acquired by Novafora for $256 million in November.
Gregory T. Huang is Xconomy's National IT Editor and the Editor of Xconomy Boston. You can e-mail him at gthuang@xconomy.com, call him at 617-252-7323, or follow him on Twitter at @gthuang.
