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Intellectual Ventures sues Ricoh and Canon, says they pose a ‘threat to innovation’

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures on Tuesday filed its second complaint against Canon and first against Ricoh for infringing on its… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold to Microsoft alumni: ‘We participated in one of the most beneficial revolutions in human history’

For nearly one hour, Nathan Myhrvold stood in front of members of the Microsoft Alumni Network and talked strictly about Modernist… Read More

Kymeta: Is this Bill Gates’ next billion-dollar company?

Wireless technology company Kymeta Corp. has been in business for a grand total of seven months, but already it has… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures settles with Lattice

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures has reached its second settlement agreement in its case against manufacturers in the semiconductor industry. The company announced… Read More

Intellectual Ventures sues AT&T, CenturyLink and Windstream over DSL patents

Intellectual Ventures has filed suit against AT&T, CenturyLink and Windstream Communications, alleging that their DSL Internet services violate some of… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures settles with Microsemi, turns them into a customer

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures has entered into a settlement agreement with Microsemi, resolving the patent suit that it filed against… Read More

Year in review: Vote for the top Seattle tech story of 2012

It’s been quite the year in Seattle technology. Amazon.com kept growing. Microsoft kept transforming. And several startups raised huge rounds of… Read More

Patent firm looks to ‘unravel complex web’ of Intellectual Ventures, but falls well short of crowdfunding goal

Intellectual Ventures is no stranger to controversy, with the Bellevue patent holding firm routinely taking heat in the media (including… Read More

TerraPower nuclear engineer emerges at stealthy energy startup SuperCritical Technologies

Chal Davidson, the former lead engineer at TerraPower, the nuclear reactor startup backed by Intellectual Ventures and Microsoft co-founder Bill… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold is completely fine with failure and thinks you should be, too

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. Sure, it’s one of the more overused cliches in the… Read More

Intellectual Ventures reaches first big legal settlements

Intellectual Ventures this morning announced legal settlements with two companies, SK hynix and Elpida Memory, which make common types of memory… Read More

Bill Nye takes on creationism; Solavei’s cell plan; and other top stories of the month

August usually is a quiet time on the tech beat, but not this summer. We were busy keeping tabs on… Read More

Intellectual Ventures: Why haven’t there been more spinoffs?

Intellectual Ventures has been in business since 2000, led by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, with a bunch… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spins out satellite broadband antenna company, with Bill Gates as investor

Bill Gates is among the investors putting a total of $12 million into a new Seattle-area company, Kymeta, that plans… Read More

A feisty Nathan Myhrvold defends his quest for ‘Global Good’

Scientists and researchers working with Intellectual Ventures have come up with lots of wild ideas over the years. Some of… Read More

Politicians look to leash patent trolls with new SHIELD Act

Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio is sick and tired of patent trolls, and he’s not going to take it anymore. DeFazio… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold on the hot seat at D10, defends unpopular stance on patent licensing

Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold has taken plenty of knocks during his long career, but none probably as public as… Read More

Intellectual Ventures’ chief dealmaker on patents, used cars and creating a new market

Andy Elder isn’t from Seattle originally, but he’s accustomed to the rain, having grown up in England. As a kid,… Read More

How former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold could have created the iPhone

Nathan Myhrvold is back in the national spotlight again, but in a very different way this time. A cover story… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold sees ‘vindication’ in growing importance of tech patents

The featured speaker this morning at the Pacific Science Center‘s Foundations of Science breakfast in Seattle was Nathan Myhrvold, the… Read More

Craig McCaw-backed Pendrell makes a big patent buy

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures may be the best known of the patent holding firms in the Seattle area. But another… Read More

Bill Gates: ‘Cheap energy is like a fantastic vaccine’

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back in the news, talking about the importance of nuclear power. And while the software… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures slaps AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint with patent lawsuit

Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm operated by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, has filed a lawsuit against… Read More

Weight loss schemers hack ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold’s Modern Cuisine Twitter account

Even former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold is susceptible to hacker attacks. Last night, we noticed that Myhrvold’s popular… Read More

Broadband on a plane: Intellectual Ventures has a better way coming in 2014

Is Nathan Myhrvold about to improve your in-flight broadband connection? That’s one of the promises of a new type of… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Nathan Myhrvold, gourmet geek and patent lightning rod

Nathan Myhrvold was in the spotlight in 2011 perhaps more than at any other point since he was Microsoft’s chief… Read More

Intellectual Ventures sues Nikon for patent infringement

Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company led by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has filed suit against camera giant Nikon… Read More

Intellectual Ventures signs patent deal with Wistron

Intellectual Ventures announced another patent licensing deal this morning, this one with Wistron, the large technology manufacturer based in Taiwan.… Read More

Five weird (and wacky) pursuits of rich tech moguls

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” That line from F. Scott… Read More