Nathan Myhrvold

Founder and CEO
Intellectual Ventures

After retiring from his position as chief strategist and chief technology officer of Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures, a company that is assembling a large body of patents and inventions. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University and worked with Professor Stephen Hawking on research in cosmology, quantum field theory in curved space time and quantum theories of gravitation. Dr. Myhrvold himself holds more than 20 patents and has nearly 200 patents pending. He is currently working on a cookbook surveying the science, technology and techniques used in modern cuisine. It is expected to be completed in late 2009.

Posts With Nathan Myhrvold

Tasty Geek: Nathan Myhrvold Takes His Modernist Cuisine to “Top Chef”

Kara Swisher in Media on January 7 at 10:38 am PT

A side of patent troll pâté anyone?

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.

RIM Gets Access to Intellectual Ventures’ Pile of Patents

Ina Fried in Mobile on March 30, 2011 at 10:30 am PT

With the deal, RIM gains a warehouse of more than 30,000 patents as it seeks to wind its way through the murky, litigious world that is the modern smartphone business.

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.

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.

Kara's TED Video: No Sarah Silverman Cussing, but–Shocker–Rob Glaser Touts Bill Gates!

Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2010 at 5:18 am PT

The controversy over Sarah Silverman’s appearance at the tail end of the TED conference last week can be distilled to this: You either like the gutter-mouthed comic or you don’t. In any case, here’s a video I did at the event, including a tour around TED and a chat with a variety of folks, including former RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser–who used to work for Microsoft–praising a speech on the need to focus on energy and global warming by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

BoomTown's 1998 Rob Glaser Profile: A Web Pioneer Does a Delicate Dance With Microsoft

Kara Swisher in News on January 14, 2010 at 11:48 am PT

BoomTown did an interview last night with outgoing RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser after the announcement yesterday of his departure from the company he founded and led for 16 years. That will be posted later today, but here is a profile I wrote about Glaser when I was covering the Internet for The Wall Street Journal. It’s from Feb. 12, 1998, and focuses on Glaser’s decidedly complicated relationship with his former employer, Microsoft.

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