The question remains for both shareholders, investors and partners, as to whether or not the new Rovi, sporting the new TiVo name, wants to beef up its patent licensing and litigation business, or tone it down. The deal announced this week with Netflix suggests that litigation is merely being replaced with negotiation, but that IP revenues and “victims” are still preferred over actually conducting any real technology business by finding willing “clients”. Back in February Rovi as was, before it became TiVo, cut a deal with Intellectual Ventures (IV) for patents which relate to OTT video delivery, combined them with its own, and took responsibility for going out to the OTT community to get cash from them. Essentially these are…