News

Intellectual Ventures Is Now Patent-Trolling Motorola

Intellectual Ventures, led by former Microsoft exec and Modernist Cuisine mastermind Nathan Myhrvold, has taken Motorola to court over mobile products it says infringes upon patents it holds, including one for mobile devices contaning a CPU. Really?!


July 27, 2011
News

Who Is Really Snuffing Out American Innovation?

This American Life had an amazing story this past weekend about patent trolls. It was pegged to Intellectual Ventures and various others who litigate rather than innovate. But the real patent trolls are being traded on the NYSE.


August 28, 2010

How Intellectual Ventures Would Change The Patent System

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Patents! They’re a big deal. Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures depends on patents to make money, and they file a lot of ‘em. So I asked him how he’d change the patent system.


August 27, 2010
Gadgets

Why Failure Is An Option At Intellectual Ventures

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Nathan Myhrvold explains why failure is an option at Intellectual Ventures – and it has to be for any inventor, really.


Gadgets

Why We Need More Inventions. Lots More Inventions.

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It’s pretty simple, says Intellectual Ventures’ Nathan Myhrvold – lots more things being invented means lots more inventions that succeed.


Why Ideas Are Expensive

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Intellectual Ventures founder and modern day Merlin Nathan Myhrvold explains why it costs a lot of damn money to create new ideas. Hint: Think Hollywood.


August 26, 2010
Gadgets

How Intellectual Ventures Wants To Reinvent Invention

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“Did aeroplanes come from the R&D department of a train company or a steamship company?” Nathan Myhrvold asks, rhetorically, his voice cracking. He’s explaining how his company, Intellectual Ventures, is going to reinvent the way things are invented.


March 24, 2010
Science

An Underground Nuclear Reactor Powered By Bill Gates’s Money

A unit of Intellectual Ventures – the patent firm started by ex-Microsoft chief tech dude Nathan Myhrvold and funded partly by Bill Gates – called TerraPower is talking with Toshiba about using its nuclear reactor tech to build underground reactors.