Those of you who follow the IP industry have likely seen some buzz in the blogosphere this week about our investors, and we want to provide a bit of context about what you’re hearing. In connection with the declaratory judgment action filed against IV by Xilinx in February 2011, the local rules of court in the Northern District of California required IV to disclose its investors. IV complied with the rule of court and filed the mandatory disclosure on May 16, 2011.
We were disappointed that we were required to disclose our investors, as virtually no VCs or investment funds have to do this, but we complied as ordered by the court. We hold our investors in high regard and respect their wishes for confidentiality. We can confirm that the list of investors in the public disclosure is accurate, but we don’t have anything else to add at this time.