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Intellectual Ventures reaches first big legal settlements

Intellectual Ventures this morning announced legal settlements with two companies, SK hynix and Elpida Memory, which make common types of memory… Read More

Bill Nye takes on creationism; Solavei’s cell plan; and other top stories of the month

August usually is a quiet time on the tech beat, but not this summer. We were busy keeping tabs on… Read More

Intellectual Ventures: Why haven’t there been more spinoffs?

Intellectual Ventures has been in business since 2000, led by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, with a bunch… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spins out satellite broadband antenna company, with Bill Gates as investor

Bill Gates is among the investors putting a total of $12 million into a new Seattle-area company, Kymeta, that plans… Read More

A feisty Nathan Myhrvold defends his quest for ‘Global Good’

Scientists and researchers working with Intellectual Ventures have come up with lots of wild ideas over the years. Some of… Read More

Politicians look to leash patent trolls with new SHIELD Act

Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio is sick and tired of patent trolls, and he’s not going to take it anymore. DeFazio… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold on the hot seat at D10, defends unpopular stance on patent licensing

Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold has taken plenty of knocks during his long career, but none probably as public as… Read More

Intellectual Ventures’ chief dealmaker on patents, used cars and creating a new market

Andy Elder isn’t from Seattle originally, but he’s accustomed to the rain, having grown up in England. As a kid,… Read More

How former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold could have created the iPhone

Nathan Myhrvold is back in the national spotlight again, but in a very different way this time. A cover story… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold sees ‘vindication’ in growing importance of tech patents

The featured speaker this morning at the Pacific Science Center‘s Foundations of Science breakfast in Seattle was Nathan Myhrvold, the… Read More

Craig McCaw-backed Pendrell makes a big patent buy

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures may be the best known of the patent holding firms in the Seattle area. But another… Read More

Bill Gates: ‘Cheap energy is like a fantastic vaccine’

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back in the news, talking about the importance of nuclear power. And while the software… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures slaps AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint with patent lawsuit

Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm operated by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, has filed a lawsuit against… Read More

Weight loss schemers hack ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold’s Modern Cuisine Twitter account

Even former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold is susceptible to hacker attacks. Last night, we noticed that Myhrvold’s popular… Read More

Broadband on a plane: Intellectual Ventures has a better way coming in 2014

Is Nathan Myhrvold about to improve your in-flight broadband connection? That’s one of the promises of a new type of… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Nathan Myhrvold, gourmet geek and patent lightning rod

Nathan Myhrvold was in the spotlight in 2011 perhaps more than at any other point since he was Microsoft’s chief… Read More

Intellectual Ventures sues Nikon for patent infringement

Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company led by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has filed suit against camera giant Nikon… Read More

Intellectual Ventures signs patent deal with Wistron

Intellectual Ventures announced another patent licensing deal this morning, this one with Wistron, the large technology manufacturer based in Taiwan.… Read More

Five weird (and wacky) pursuits of rich tech moguls

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” That line from F. Scott… Read More

As patent debate rages, Google gobbles up IBM inventions

GeekWire readers have been engaged in an intense debate over the past week about the role of software patents —… Read More

Intellectual Ventures accused of ‘mafia-style shakedown’ in This American Life exposé

I was absolutely glued to the radio today as I listened to the latest episode of This American Life in… Read More

Intellectual Ventures sues HP, Dell and others over patents

Dell, HP, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and others have been sued by Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company run by former Microsoft… Read More

Did Myhrvold’s TED talk cross the line into infomercial?

With his over-the-top cookbook, “Modernist Cuisine” — weighing in at 40 pounds, six volumes, 2,438 pages and a $625 list… Read More

How Stephen Colbert made Nathan Myhrvold blush

It’s a little rare to see Nathan Myhrvold rendered speechless. After all, the former Microsoft chief technology officer seems like… Read More

Myhrvold firm: Japan crisis shouldn’t deter next-gen nukes

Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based patent firm and invention house run by former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold, says in a… Read More