Software giant Oracle has suddenly, surprisingly come up with a new set of software tools for tracking intellectual property licensing. Co-incidentally it made a $17.5 million investment this year in an LA firm Sophoi which developed these tools, and then went bust. The software has emerged under the title of Oracle Media Intellectual Property Management and it’s Oracle’s first push into the content value chain for media and entertainment companies. Ireland based conditional access company Latens got its first start in life rounding up IPTV services in Scandinavia and retrofitting CA on existing set tops, and it’s at it again, this time creating a solution for resale with cable and DTH companies in India. In Scandinavia the operators were threatened…