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Intellectual Ventures floats idea for hiding phone calls — inspired by Tiger Woods?

In a newly surfaced patent application, a group of inventors affiliated with former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures… Read More

BlueCat enters patent deal with Intellectual Ventures

Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm operated by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold, has inked a deal with… Read More

Q&A: i4i chairman adds up a $290M verdict vs. Microsoft

Earlier today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Toronto-based technology company i4i in a patent infringement lawsuit against… Read More

Micron, Intellectual Ventures enter licensing agreement

Intellectual Ventures continues to ink deals with big technology companies, gobbling up patents and helping some of the industry stalwarts… Read More

Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures distances itself from iOS in-app patent dustup

Bellevue-based Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding company and invention house run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, confirmed today… Read More

Why did Wizard Parent (aka Attachmate) just raise $377M?

Attachmate is one of Seattle’s oldest software companies, with a history stretching back to the early 1980s. But did you… Read More

Attachmate: Proud owner of a 20-year-old Microsoft antitrust dispute?

A federal appeals court yesterday kept alive a 2004 antitrust lawsuit in which Novell accused Microsoft of anti-competitive tactics dating… Read More

The Woz to Paul Allen: Stop patent trolling, start innovating

In the annals of tech history, Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak will likely be remembered as the forgotten co-founders. Each… Read More

Barnes & Noble: Microsoft wanted ‘shockingly high’ fees for Android in Nook

[Updated with Microsoft’s statement.] Barnes & Noble is rejecting Microsoft’s claims that the use of Android by its Nook e-reader… Read More

Microsoft vs. i4i at U.S. Supreme Court: Future of patent law at stake

Microsoft and i4i L.P., a small Canadian tech company, will square off this morning in oral arguments before the U.S.… Read More

Priceline founder Jay Walker pulls a Paul Allen, sues nearly every big name in tech

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen surprised many in the tech industry last summer when he sued some of the biggest names… Read More

Seattle startup Dashwire inks licensing deal with Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures

Dashwire is a small mobile software company. But the Seattle upstart still has to worry about patent issues, and because… Read More

Google bids $900M for Nortel patents, but Microsoft already has them in the bag

[Post updated at 1:45 p.m. with clarification of Microsoft’s rights to these patents under a previous licensing deal with Nortel.]… Read More

How Microsoft would get people to watch commercials

Today’s nomination for Wackiest Microsoft Idea of the Week is a newly surfaced U.S. patent application with this head-scratching title:… Read More

Google: Microsoft’s Android claims ‘threaten innovation’

Google itself hasn’t yet been named as a defendant in any of Microsoft’s patent litigation over Android, but the search… Read More

Google gets ‘Doodles’ patent

Google was awarded a patent today on something known in intellectual-property lingo as “Systems and methods for enticing users to… Read More

The patents Microsoft is using to sue Barnes & Noble

Just how many anti-Android patents does Microsoft have up its sleeve? In reading through the Redmond company’s lawsuit this afternoon… Read More

DOJ review of Microsoft patent buy delays Novell deal

The U.S. Justice Department is taking longer than expected to review the sale of 882 patents by Novell to a… Read More

Suit vs. Amazon puts cloud over popular search trick

The idea of suggesting possible searches in a drop-down box while a user types is far from unique to Amazon.com.… Read More

Microsoft idea: Dating service for people with a ‘source of shame’ … like comic books

A newly surfaced Microsoft patent filing proposes an online matchmaking service that would have users confidentially tell the system about… Read More