August usually is a quiet time on the tech beat, but not this summer. We were busy keeping tabs on controversial remarks from a host of characters, from patent guru… 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
Bill Gates is among the investors putting a total of $12 million into a new Seattle-area company, Kymeta, that plans to produce high-tech antennas to make it easier to establish… 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
Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold has taken plenty of knocks during his long career, but none probably as public as the grilling today at the D10 conference in Rancho Palos… 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
Two of our top stories during the month of April involved one of Seattle’s geekiest (and most controversial) denizens. Former Microsoft CTO and current Intellectual Ventures chief Nathan Myhrvold’s comments… 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
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
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back in the news, talking about the importance of nuclear power. And while the software titan is bullish on the energy source, it will likely… Read More
Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm operated by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, has filed a lawsuit against AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile alleging patent infringement. “The wireless communications… Read More
Even former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold is susceptible to hacker attacks. Last night, we noticed that Myhrvold’s popular Modern Cuisine Twitter account, followed by more than 8,100 folks,… 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
Nathan Myhrvold was in the spotlight in 2011 perhaps more than at any other point since he was Microsoft’s chief technology officer — and for two very different reasons. First,… 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
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
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” That line from F. Scott Fitzgerald perfectly summarizes some of the oddball and unusual activities… Read More
GeekWire readers have been engaged in an intense debate over the past week about the role of software patents — a discussion that arose after This American Life featured an… 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
With his over-the-top cookbook, “Modernist Cuisine” — weighing in at 40 pounds, six volumes, 2,438 pages and a $625 list price — Nathan Myhrvold has produced an epic tribute to… 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