The VC Myth, Debunked: Why Patent Funders Aren’t VCs Reading Sean K. Thompson’s new preprint — and what the publicly disclosed Burford and Omni Bridgeway data actually say about how patent funders make money. The Setup In 2025, four WilmerHale attorneys published The Venture Capital Model Applied to Litigation Funding: Misaligned Incentives and the Harm […]
The Patent Platform Turn: How Families Beat Single Cases How patent acquisition and licensing-first strategies are reshaping litigation finance (2025–2026) My interest here isn’t academic. The “old model” this post describes — one patent, one defendant, one big swing — is exactly how I bought patent cases as a retail investor on LexShares. I held […]
LexShares Case #644: The Passport Patent Payday An inventor’s RFID technology ended up in every US electronic passport. After 9 years of litigation, the government finally paid. The Numbers Invested $25,000 Returned $45,897 Net Profit $20,897 MOIC 1.84x IRR 9.43% Holding Period 2,458 days The Case In the mid-2000s, an inventor developed technology for securely […]
