Patent holding company Pendrell is undergoing a shakeup, with CEO Benjamin Wolff resigning from the board and the CEO post, according to a SEC filing released Thursday morning. Wolff, the… Read More
—Big Fish just hooked a new finance chief. The Seattle casual games company today announced that Bob Chamberlain recently joined as CFO. The hire is significant, in part because Chamberlain… Read More
ContentGuard, a subsidiary of Bellevue-based patent holding firm Pendrell Corporation, announced today that it has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Amazon, Apple, BlackBerry, Huawei and Google-owned Motorola Mobility.… Read More
Pendrell Corp. has made another big patent purchase. The Kirkland company led by former Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff announced today that it has acquired 125 patents and patent applications from… Read More
It must be agricultural science day here at GeekWire. I just wrote about Phytelligence, a WSU spinout that’s developing more robust apple and cherry trees, scoring new funding. Now, here… Read More
ContentGuard, a subsidiary of the Kirkland-based patent holding firm Pendrell Corp., announced a partnership today with one of Korea’s top mobile handset makers. ContentGuard and Pantech will team up to help improve… Read More
Pendrell Corp., the Kirkland patent holding firm led by former Clearwire execs, said today that it has withdrawn a petition for review with the California Supreme Court related to litigation… Read More
Wade Wegner, the former director of technical evangelism at Microsoft, has been named chief technology officer at Bellevue-based Aditi Technologies. At Microsoft, he was responsible for leading the team that… Read More
Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures may be the best known of the patent holding firms in the Seattle area. But another player with ties to a different wealthy Seattle techie is… Read More
Pendrell Corp., the Kirkland company formerly known as ICO Global, today announced that it is paying $90.1 million in cash to purchase a 90.1 percent stake in El Segundo, California-based… Read More