Intellectual Ventures
Summary
Intellectual Ventures is a private company claiming to invest in "pure invention". Their business model has a focus on developing a large patent portfolio and licensing these to companies with infringing products. Intellectual Ventures launched a prototyping and research laboratory in 2009 called Intellectual Ventures Lab which gained some media coverage when popular non-fiction book SuperFreakonomics covered their efforts to reduce global climate change. Its employees are predominantly patent attorneys, physicists, engineers and biotechnologists. They also have hired prominent scientists to perform invention including Robert Langer of MIT, Leroy Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology, Ed Harlow of Harvard Medical School, Danny Hillis of Applied Minds, and Sir John Pendry of Imperial College.Intellectual Ventures was originally founded in 2000 by Nathan Myhrvold and Edward Jung of Microsoft as a private partnership.
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Patent trolls and horse-powered boats: 8 highlights from Stanford’s IP conference
Scholars gathered at Stanford this week to discuss everything from privacy to patent trolls to horse-powered boats. The conference was about intellectual property but, at a deep level, about the best ways to distribute ownership of brands and ideas.
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How Chicago Is Beating Silicon Valley At The Patent Game
Silicon Valley leads the world in technology but it’s losing a debate over how that technology should be used. A new surge in patent lawsuits shows that Chicago, not Silicon Valley, is setting the rules for how patents should encourage innovation.
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How Chicago Is Beating Silicon Valley At The Patent Game
Silicon Valley leads the world in technology but it’s losing a debate over how that technology should be used. A new surge in patent lawsuits shows that Chicago, not Silicon Valley, is setting the rules for how patents should encourage innovation.
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Samsung, Research In Motion Sued For Using Emoticons ;(
A shell company capped off a week of patent controversy by suing two popular phone makers for including a button that lets users put a smiley face in their messages.
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Analysis: Patent plaintiffs target Facebook as IPO approaches
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As it prepares for one of the biggest IPOs ever, Facebook is coming under the same fierce attacks being waged against other big technology companies: patent lawsuits.
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Both Sides Claim Victory In Microsoft-Motorola Patent Dispute At ITC
The aftermath of a modern patent ruling looks more and more like the spin room following a presidential debate, a place where everyone believes their candidate was a winner and claims to be delighted with his or her prospects. Such was the case following yet another ruling Tuesday from the International Trade Commission involving mobile patents, this time with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Motorola (NYSE: MMI) on opposite sides of the room.
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Google To 'Support' Android OEMs Facing Lawsuits As LG Makes A Deal With IV
Some heartening news for Android device makers today from the mouth of Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will continue to back those of them facing legal disputes over patents. But that’s not stopping those device makers from shoring up their patent licensing deals, just in case.
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Billion-Dollar Patent Lawyer Hunting Facebook, Twitter
John Desmarais is famous in patent law circles for obtaining a $1. 5 billion verdict against Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in 2007 and, more recently, for being a subject in an NPR documentary about the harm caused by so-called patent trolls. Now he has set his sights on Facebook and Twitter.
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Google-Backed Patent Troll Sues Motorola (GOOG)
Google is in the process of buying Motorola in part to provide patent protection for Android. Ironically, Google is also an investor in Intellectual Ventures.
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Intellectual Ventures Piles On Motorola's Patent Woes With Another Lawsuit
Intellectual Ventures reminded the mobile world Thursday that it too would like to collect an Android tax. The patent-holding company filed a lawsuit against Motorola (NYSE: MMI) alleging that Motorola is stepping on IV’s patents with several of its phones, as the mobile patent mess just keeps churning.
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