Intellectual Ventures has filed suit against AT&T, CenturyLink and Windstream Communications, alleging that their DSL Internet services violate some of the tens of thousands of patents in Intellectual Ventures’ portfolio.… Read More
Mark Cuban is never one to shy away from his beliefs. Now, to show his disdain for patents, he’s created a newly-endowed chair at digital rights organization The Electronic Frontier Foundation… Read More
Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures has entered into a settlement agreement with Microsemi, resolving the patent suit that it filed against the company in December 2010. Settlement terms were not revealed.… Read More
Intellectual Ventures is no stranger to controversy, with the Bellevue patent holding firm routinely taking heat in the media (including the comment threads of GeekWire). Now a Berkeley patent analytics… Read More
Chal Davidson, the former lead engineer at TerraPower, the nuclear reactor startup backed by Intellectual Ventures and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has emerged at the helm of a new startup… Read More
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. Sure, it’s one of the more overused cliches in the English language. Yet it still holds true in the tech… Read More
Intellectual Ventures this morning announced legal settlements with two companies, SK hynix and Elpida Memory, which make common types of memory used in computers and gadgets. The deals are the first major… Read More
Intellectual Ventures has been in business since 2000, led by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, with a bunch of different lab spaces filled with scientists working on all… Read More
Scientists and researchers working with Intellectual Ventures have come up with lots of wild ideas over the years. Some of them have the potential to help the world, ranging from… Read More
Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio is sick and tired of patent trolls, and he’s not going to take it anymore. DeFazio (D-OR) and Utah’s Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) today introduced a new bill… Read More
Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures continues to ink deals with large technology companies, adding to its list of more than 30 customers. The latest is Austin, Texas-based Silicon Laboratories — a… Read More
Intellectual Ventures and graphics processor company Nvidia have teamed up to acquire hundreds of patents related to LTE, LTE-Advanced and 3G/4G wireless communications, looking to become stronger players in the… Read More
Andy Elder isn’t from Seattle originally, but he’s accustomed to the rain, having grown up in England. As a kid, his favorite rainy-day pastime was chess, and he still plays… Read More
Nathan Myhrvold is back in the national spotlight again, but in a very different way this time. A cover story in Men’s Journal, called “How a Geek Grills a Burger,”… Read More
The featured speaker this morning at the Pacific Science Center‘s Foundations of Science breakfast in Seattle was Nathan Myhrvold, the former Microsoft executive, scientist and high-tech chef whose Intellectual Ventures is… Read More
Fast-growing ClassifiedAds.com has named Jim Nutt — the former director of software engineering at Intellectual Ventures — to the position of vice president of engineering. “Jim’s extensive experience in building and… Read More
Is Nathan Myhrvold about to improve your in-flight broadband connection? That’s one of the promises of a new type of antenna that Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures is developing, using synthetic substances… Read More
Intellectual Ventures has just added another big company to its stable of patent licensees, announcing a patent agreement with consumer technology giant LG Electronics this morning. The companies say the… Read More
Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company led by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has filed suit against camera giant Nikon in federal court in Delaware, adding to a growing list… Read More
Motorola has been sued for patent infringement by Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold — marking the latest in a series of intellectual… Read More
Intellectual Ventures announced another patent licensing deal this morning, this one with Wistron, the large technology manufacturer based in Taiwan. The agreement gives Wistron access to Intellectual Ventures’ portfolio of… Read More
This American Life’s investigation of Intellectual Ventures offers some important lessons for the tech industry, Mac OS X Lion signals a change in how we’ll use our computers, and Microsoft… Read More
I was absolutely glued to the radio today as I listened to the latest episode of This American Life in which Planet Money’s Alex Blumberg and NPR’s Laura Sydell report… Read More
Dell, HP, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and others have been sued by Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, as part of a broader patent… Read More
In a newly surfaced patent application, a group of inventors affiliated with former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures proposes a system for “conditionally obfuscating one or more secret… Read More
Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm operated by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold, has inked a deal with BlueCat Networks of Toronto. As part of the agreement, BlueCat… Read More
Intellectual Ventures continues to ink deals with big technology companies, gobbling up patents and helping some of the industry stalwarts defend themselves if litigation were to arise. Today, Intellectual Ventures… Read More
Bellevue-based Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding company and invention house run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, confirmed today that it once owned the patent at the center of… Read More
It’s a little rare to see Nathan Myhrvold rendered speechless. After all, the former Microsoft chief technology officer seems like a guy who can talk intelligently about anything, from cooking… Read More
Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based patent firm and invention house run by former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold, says in a new blog post that the current crisis surrounding Japan’s nuclear… Read More