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Inside the invention factory: Get a peek at Intellectual Ventures’ lab

BELLEVUE, Wash. – It’s tough enough to move a laboratory to new digs, but when you add in a world-class kitchen… Read More

High-tech cooking startup Sansaire unveils new sous vide device and app

High-tech cooking startup Sansaire is launching a Kickstarter campaign today for a smaller, WiFi-enabled sous vide cooking device. The Sansaire… Read More

NASA fires back at Nathan Myhrvold in spat over asteroid mission’s data

BELLEVUE, Wash. – NASA issued a statement today disputing Seattle tech icon Nathan Myhrvold’s critique of asteroid data analysis from the space… Read More

Tech titan Nathan Myhrvold stirs up debate over search for killer asteroids

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Millionaire techie Nathan Myhrvold is used to stirring up controversy over issues ranging from patent licensing to dinosaur… Read More

How one man stirred up a high-tech cooking revolution in Seattle

It’s a good time to be a sous vide home chef — and to be a high-tech cooking startup in the Seattle… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold builds a robo-tail to show dinosaurs could create whip-crackin’ sonic booms

Nathan Myhrvold, the Microsoft millionaire who went on to found Intellectual Ventures, is a huge dinosaur geek. But not just any dinosaur… Read More

Anthony Bourdain drops by Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine Cooking Lab for lunch

He’s probably one of the most famous — or at least the most famous roving — chef in the world.… Read More

UCLA student op-ed slams Nathan Myhrvold as commencement speaker

UCLA alumnus Nathan Myhrvold has just joined an elite group: graduation commencement speakers that have ignited controversy simply by being chosen… Read More

Intellectual Ventures licenses patents to Ford, pushing into auto industry

Intellectual Ventures has licensed its portfolio of 40,000 patents and patent applications to Ford Motor Co., according to an announcement… Read More

Bill Gates and Madrona lead $15M investment in secretive high-tech radar company Echodyne

Bill Gates and Madrona Venture Group are leading a $15 million investment in a new company called Echodyne, which is… Read More

Climate change: Bill Gates, Hank Paulson and Nathan Myhrvold diagnose our dysfunction

It was a combo you don’t see every day: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures cuts 140 employees from its patent-buying workforce

Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue, Wash.-based patent holding firm run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has laid off 20… Read More

Trim those trees! Why Bill Gates and friends want to put accelerometers on power lines

Accelerometers have become a common part of the sensor arrays on smartphones and other devices, but a group that includes… Read More

Patent giant Intellectual Ventures launches new PAC to lobby legislators

It seems like talk of more federal patent regulation has spooked Intellectual Ventures. The company recently submitted a filing with… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold’s patent firm Intellectual Ventures lays off 5% of workforce

Intellectual Ventures says it has laid off 5 percent of its workforce — following earlier reports that the company had… Read More

Intellectual Ventures’ patent showdown with Motorola ends in mistrial

Intellectual Ventures’s first legal fight with Google-owned Motorola Mobility has ended with both sides walking away with nothing but a… Read More

Intellectual Ventures reveals list of 33,000 patents, in move toward (partial) transparency

Intellectual Ventures, under increasing pressure to be more transparent about its patent holdings, this morning released a searchable list of… Read More

Report: Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures curtails patent buys, looks to raise $3B

A new report out from Reuters says that Intellectual Ventures — the Bellevue-based patent holding firm led by former Microsoft… Read More

ASI Semiconductor inks patent deal with Intellectual Ventures for transistor technology

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures (IV) announced a new patent licensing deal today with ASI Semiconductor Inc., a small Los Angeles company… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spinout Evolv gets $11.8M from Bill Gates and others, aims to transform security scanning

Intellectual Ventures this morning announced a new spinout company, Evolv, that has landed $11.8 million in funding from investors including… Read More

Political push: Intellectual Ventures opens D.C. office to support new lobbying team

In an effort to support a lobbying push as the U.S. government cracks down on “patent trolls,” Intellectual Ventures is… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold says discussions with Bill Gates ‘completely irrelevant’ in patent spat, claims he’s too busy to testify

As CEO of Intellectual Ventures, international traveler and cooking guru, Nathan Myhrvold is a busy man. So busy, in fact, that… Read More

This chart shows what’s royally messed up in the U.S. patent system

It’s been a huge week for patents — starting with This American Life’s follow-up on Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures and… Read More

As political heat rises on patent hoarders, Intellectual Ventures sues more banks

For the second time in the past week, Bellevue-based Intellectual Ventures has utilized its arsenal of patents in legal actions… Read More

Watch out, Intellectual Ventures? President Obama says enough with patent shenanigans

Now, this could get rather interesting. President Barack Obama is expected to announce measures on Tuesday that could curb the… Read More

This American Life: Intellectual Ventures got 90% of ongoing profits even after selling patent

Intellectual Ventures struck a deal to receive 90 percent of the ongoing profits from a patent that it sold to… Read More

Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures is now going after banks, sues PNC and First National Bank of Omaha

Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding company led by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, is turning its attention to financial institutions.… Read More

Intellectual Ventures inks patent deal with Salesforce, its first cloud-computing pact

Intellectual Ventures today announced a patent licensing agreement with Salesforce.com —the Bellevue-based company’s first licensing customer in the area of cloud computing. The company… Read More

Gates, Myhrvold tap startup vet to lead ‘Global Good’ technology initiative

The position of “Vice President of Global Good” at Intellectual Ventures made news even before it was filled. The Bellevue company,… Read More

Myhrvold to Slashdot: We’re more alike than you think

With a caffeine-free Diet Coke and a cappuccino by his side, Nathan Myhrvold entered the “lion’s den” today — a.k.a. Slashdot —… Read More