Intellectual Ventures

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.

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!

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.

Confirmed: Intellectual Ventures Owns Smartphone Motion-Control Patent

John Paczkowski in News on March 26, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

Patent #7,679,604, the broad motion-control patent I’ve been writing about all week, has passed through a number of hands over the years. First assigned to ArrayComm in 2006, it was subsequently handed over to Durham Logistics, a limited liability company that is itself managed by another obscure Las Vegas LLC called Memscom. But there’s one more company at the end of that oblique line of ownership: “Invention capital outfit” Intellectual Ventures.

Bill Gates Start-Up in Talks on Small Nuclear Reactor

Robert A. Guth and Daisuke Wakabayashi, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 23, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

An energy start-up backed by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates is in discussions with Toshiba Corp. on developing a small-scale nuclear reactor that would represent a long-term bet to make nuclear power safer and cheaper.

The Entire D6 Interview With Intellectual Ventures' Nathan Myhrvold (3 of 3)

Kara Swisher in News on September 19, 2008 at 11:12 am PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here is a video of an interview Walt Mossberg did with Nathan Myhrvold, founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures. In it, Mossberg wrangles with the former Microsoft CTO and research guru over his controversial company, which is assembling a large body of patents and inventions. In this third part, Myhrvold takes questions from the audience.