SAN FRANCISCO — The footsteps of Intellectual Ventures are getting louder in Silicon Valley.

The secretive Bellevue, Wash., “invention capital company” lays claim to about 27,000 patents. And after several years of buying IP and piling up money from investors, it’s starting to make tech companies that it identifies as infringing on its patents pay — in a big way.

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