Intellectual Ventures

Nvidia, Intellectual Ventures Scoop Up Some Wireless Patents as Land Grab Continues

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 14 at 9:58 am PT

Nathan Myhrvold’s patent firm teamed with the graphics chipmaker to buy approximately 500 wireless patents.

More D10 Speakers: Ellison, Meeker, Myhrvold, Along With Pixar and Visa!

Kara Swisher in D10 on April 9 at 2:49 pm PT

Speakers? We got your D10 speakers.

Patent Collector Intellectual Ventures Sues AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile for Infringement

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 16 at 7:44 am PT

Nathan Myhrvold’s intellectual property shop has filed a patent suit against three of the four big U.S. carriers.

Firm Uses Crowdsourcing to Help Big Company Clients Fight Off Patent Suits

Ina Fried in News on October 24, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Article One Partners, which recently opened an office in Palo Alto, is carving out a niche by helping those targeted in lawsuits to invalidate the patents they are accused of infringing.

Intellectual Ventures Joins the Mobile Patent War, Suing Motorola Mobility

Ina Fried in Mobile on October 6, 2011 at 8:21 am PT

The patent amassing firm, which was started by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, said it has filed a patent infringement suit after Motorola refused to license its intellectual property.

And Intellectual Ventures Says Lawsuits Are a Ridiculous Way to Do Business

John Paczkowski in News on July 12, 2011 at 10:44 am PT

Intellectual Ventures sues Hynix, Dell, HP and a slew of other companies for patent infringement.

Dashwire Licenses Patents From Intellectual Ventures As Mobile-Related Litigation Heats Up

Ina Fried in Mobile on April 6, 2011 at 4:32 pm PT

Dashwire is the latest mobile company to become a customer of Nathan Myhrvold’s intellectual property shop. The move comes as the mobile arena is getting increasingly litigious–and it’s not just Nokia, Microsoft and Apple taking to the courts.

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Big Patent Firm Sues Nine Tech Firms

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 8, 2010 at 11:20 am PT

Intellectual Ventures LLC, which has spent a decade buying and filing for patents, named nine big technology companies as defendants in its first-ever infringement suits. The closely held firm was co-founded by former Microsoft Corp. chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, who had avoided litigation for years but never ruled it out.

Viral Video: More Nerdtastic Interns Rapping…

Kara Swisher in News on July 27, 2010 at 5:05 am PT

Oh, let’s just go with this summer-intern-rapping meme, shall we? Here’s a trio of super-nerds at Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures in the Seattle area–Bellevue, Wash., actually–trying to best the efforts of Cisco intern Greg Justice, who imperiously dubbed himself “The World’s Most Interesting Intern.” And extra points for the lab coats!

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Iridium Patents Soar Anew in Licensing Deal

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 25, 2010 at 1:30 pm PT

A collection of satellites called Iridium became a symbol in the 1990s of overambitious engineering, and later a turnaround story. Now the network may also be linked to the imaginative financial engineering going on around patents. Intellectual Ventures, a Seattle firm known more for acquiring patents than dispensing with them, announced a deal this week to sell rights to a large portfolio of satellite communications patents to Thales Alenia Space, a Franco-Italian joint venture that recently won a contract to supply a new fleet of satellites to Iridium Communications. Where did the inventions come from? Mainly the original Iridium project.