Intellectual Ventures Management LLC, a patent-licensing firm, sued companies including McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc., alleging infringement of more than 10 U.S. patents.

      Intellectual Ventures, based in Bellevue, Washington, seeks jury trials and unspecified damages in three lawsuits, according to papers filed today in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware. The firm’s founder and chief executive officer is Nathan Myrhvold, the former chief technology officer of Microsoft Corp.

      Since its founding in 2000, “Intellectual Ventures has purchased more than 30,000 patents” and “earned nearly $2 billion by licensing these patents,” according to court papers.

      Other named defendants include Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Trend Micro Inc., Elpida Memory Inc., Altera Corp., Microsemi Corp. and Lattice Semiconductor Corp.

      “Symantec is aware of the lawsuit but we have nothing to add to the story,” said Nicole Kenyon, a spokeswoman for the Mountain View, California-based company.

      “McAfee just received notice of the lawsuit this morning, so we still need to review the details. We aren’t typically able to comment on pending litigation,” said Tracy Ross, a spokeswoman for Santa Clara, California-based McAfee.

      Officials of Ichon, South Korea-based Hynix weren’t immediately available to comment on the lawsuits. Mike Sweeny, a spokesman for Trend Micro in Cupertino, California, had no comment. Stephanie Look, a spokeswoman for Tel Aviv, Israel- based Check Point, had no immediate comment.

      The cases are Intellectual Ventures v. Check Point, 10- cv-1067; Intellectual Ventures v. Hynix 10-cv-1066; and Intellectual Ventures v. Altera 10-cv-1065; U.S. District Court, District of Delaware (Wilmington).

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