| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.09.2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: September 7th – 13th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, we learned about how the White House supposedly blocked Walmart from buying TikTok, and we asked why amidst all the fear around the site, nobody was equally worried about advertising tech and location data ... |
| 14.08.2025 | Trump Threatens Bayh‑Dole March‑In To Punish Harvard—After Refusing It For COVID | For years we’ve talked about the serious problems of the Bayh-Dole Act, which encouraged universities to patent every damn idea that anyone associated with the university came up with in the hopes of “commercializing” it. In practice this h... |
| 08.07.2025 | NUS Enterprise appoints global innovation experts to advance innovation and research translation efforts | SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS), has appointed Dr Patrick Ennis and Ms Donna See as strategic advisors to support its next phase of growth in ... |
| 17.09.2024 | Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA) Welcomes Catherine Calarco, Esteemed Leader in Healthcare, AI, and Digital Innovation | Catherine Calarco, Board Director and Visionary Leader
The Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA) announces that after an expansive search and in-depth interview process, Catherine Calarco, in 2024 was selected to join EWA as an exceptional woman... |
| 20.12.2021 | Своя персональная «стена огня»: firewall против комаров | Далеко позади остались тёплые летние деньки, и настало самое время поговорить о том, как подготовиться к следующему лету. Во многих регионах тёплый летний период существенно омрачается наличием летающих кровососущих насекомых. В некоторых р... |
| 07.09.2021 | Kymeta teams up with OneWeb to test mobile satellite broadband service | Kymeta and OneWeb test a u8-based data terminal with OneWeb’s constellation of satellites. (Kymeta Photo)
Redmond, Wash.-based Kymeta Corp., the mobile connectivity company backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has joined forces with O... |
| 07.06.2021 | Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold invest in new fund to back metamaterials tech startups | A military-style Polaris RZR off-road vehicle plows through desert dunes with a Kymeta satellite antenna installed on top. Kymeta is one of the metamaterials companies that spun out of Intellectual Ventures, which has connections to a new v... |
| 31.08.2020 | Clean energy funding: Ex-Tesla CTO raises $40 million to recycle batteries, plus nuclear fusion and fission | $40 million for recycling batteries
Redwood Materials, the startup founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel raised a reported $40 million in venture capital from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Capricorn Investment Group. Redwood raised $2 mill... |
| 17.04.2020 | AI Weekly: When to ship or shelve a coronavirus solution | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Apple and Google’s common coronavirus contact tra... |
| 17.04.2020 | AI Weekly: When to ship or shelve a coronavirus solution | Apple and Google’s common coronavirus contact tracing solution for smartphones has continued to attract a lot of attention and debate over the past week, and understandably so. It’s an unprecedented partnership between the world’s dominant ... |
| 29.10.2019 | Bill Gates-backed Pivotal Commware raises $10M as it ramps up 5G hardware | In this scenario for a wireless application, Pivotal Commware’s Echo 5G device consists of a paddle-like antenna placed on the exterior of a window, and a power puck installed on the inside. (Pivotal Commware Photo)
Pivotal Commware, one of... |
| 18.10.2019 | Analysis: Seattle startup ecosystem poised for unprecedented acceleration of company creation | The downtown Seattle skyline. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)
[Editor’s note: This guest post was co-written by Oren Etzioni and Jacob Colker of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle.]
We’ve reached a tipping poin... |
| 11.09.2019 | Echodyne raises $20M from Bill Gates and others as surveillance radar gains traction | Echodyne’s flat-panel radar antenna is small enough to be held in your hand. (Echodyne Photo)
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and other investors have contributed to a fresh $20 million funding round for Kirkland, Wash.-based Echodyne, a co... |
| 18.04.2019 | Sidai Is Revving Up Kenyan Farming with Fleets of Motorbikes and a Fresh Round Of Funding | Silicon Valley’s tech giants have been eagerly taking stock of the growing numbers of motorbikes speeding through the streets of Kenya. When Google launched a ‘Motorbike Mode’ on its Maps in Kenya last October, the company noted on its Afri... |
| 23.01.2019 | QuantuMDx & St George’s begin field study: cervical cancer screening test | To coincide with Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, QuantuMDx Group has announced the start of a field study with St George’s, University of London, to evaluate its human papilloma virus (HPV) assay which will provide a solution for cervic... |
| 15.01.2019 | How AI can detect cervical cancer | Cervical cancer cells (Image from National Cancer Institute\Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University)
Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that they say can analyze digital images of a woman’s cervix and accurately identify p... |
| 05.09.2018 | Carillon Technologies Raises Initial Funding Round | Carillon Technologies today announced an initial round of funding. Carillon's mission is to assist the U.S. Government and government contractors in accelerating the identification, adaption and deployment of advanced commercial technologie... |
| 05.09.2018 | Carillon Technologies Raises Initial Funding Round | Carillon Technologies today announced an initial round of funding. Carillon's mission is to assist the U.S. Government and government contractors in accelerating the identification, adaption and deployment of advanced commercial technologie... |
| 01.11.2017 | SailPoint & WatchGuard IPO, HX, Technium, ResMan, & More Texas News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Houston and the rest of the Texas Gulf Coast are largely back to business following Hurricane Harvey. Among the more notable news is Houston tech and civic leaders unveiling a... |
| 16.06.2017 | Bill Gates Backs Fourth Metamaterials Spinout, Pivotal Commware | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Pivotal Commware, a year-old metamaterials startup built inside patent licensing and invention business Intellectual Ventures, has raised $17 million from investors including ... |
| 06.12.2016 | Retrace, a Xinova Spinout, Provides Data to Improve E-Waste Recycling | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For all of its noble goals, the business of recycling old electronics and mobile phones is fraught with challenges and not very profitable. Retrace, a Seattle startup that spu... |
| 30.11.2016 | Stupid Patent Of The Month: Movies From The Cloud | The Onion once ran a piece titled “I invented YouTube back in 2010.” The joke, of course, is that YouTube launched in 2005. This month’s Stupid Patent of the Month is just as ridiculous. US Patent No. 8,856,221, titled ?System and method fo... |
| 02.11.2016 | Microsoft and Nathan Myhrvold invest in Atlas, a search engine for your digital footprint | Via Atlas.
Microsoft and Nathan Myhrvold are some of the backers behind a new Seattle startup that wants to create a search engine for your digital life. Atlas Informatics CEO Jordan Ritter. Photo via Atlas.
Atlas Informatics today pulled b... |
| 20.07.2016 | Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Jeremy and Ariel Rabkin | In the news roundup, Michael Vatis covers Microsoft’s surprising Second Circuit victory over the Justice Department in litigation over a warrant for data stored in Ireland. The hidden issue in that case was data localization – the same issu... |
| 02.05.2016 | Echodyne Readies Lightweight Radar for Small Drones, Other Uses | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As aviation regulators and the drone industry work out rules for the quadcopters and other small unmanned aircraft systems that may someday deliver packages—among scores of ot... |
| 10.02.2016 | Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #100: An Interview with David Kris | We devote episode 100 to “section 702” intelligence – the highly productive counterterrorism program that collects data on foreigners from data stored on US servers. What’s remarkable about the program is its roots: President Bush’s decisio... |
| 17.03.2015 | Echodyne Targets Drones, Self-Driving Cars with Metamaterials Radar | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Echodyne, a secretive Seattle-area startup company backed by investors including Bill Gates and Paul Allen, is developing a novel, high-performance radar suitable for drones, ... |
| 06.03.2015 | Seattle Roundup: Avalara, Alternative Capital, Car2Go, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Two companies providing financing alternatives to technology companies made news this week. Lighter Capital did a deal with Portland, OR-based Building Energy, and SaaS Capita... |
| 27.02.2015 | Seattle Roundup: Live Long and Prosper Edition | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Our hearts are heavy today with news of the death of Leonard Nimoy at age 83, who was Star Trek’s Mr. Spock and so much more. He exemplified his most famous character’s most f... |
| 19.12.2014 | Echodyne Announces $15M Series A |
BELLEVUE, WA, Echodyne Corp. announced today its initial round of funding led by Bill Gates and Madrona Venture Group.
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| 19.12.2014 | Metamaterials Moguls: Gates, Allen Back New Radar Startup Echodyne | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Microsoft’s co-founders are backing a Seattle-area startup that wants to apply proprietary metamaterials technology to radar.
Bill Gates is co-leader with Madrona Venture Grou... |
| 28.10.2014 | Why this wearable tech startup is teaming with Intellectual Ventures | Jose Torres smiles when I point out what happens when someone Googles the phrase “Intellectual Ventures.” The company, led by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, is a lightning rod in the technology industry, with its giant i... |
| 22.08.2014 | Seattle Roundup: Algorithmia, Array, Intellectual Ventures, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, we’re tracking investments in Algorithmia, which is building a marketplace for algorithms, and Array Health Solutions, which powers health insurance marketplaces.
A... |
| 22.04.2014 | Intellectual Ventures Big Case Shut Down By Judge Over Completely Bogus Patents | Late last fall, we highlighted some very questionable practices by Intellectual Ventures in suing a bunch of big banks for patent infringement. Our focus was on a particular patent, 6,182,894, which was initially assigned to American Expres... |
| 10.01.2014 | Bill Gates Is Not The Next CEO Of Microsoft, But His VC Investments Are Picking Up | Bill Gates may be one of the world’s most famous philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and guest editors, but could he be adding venture capitalist to the list? Over the past few years it seems that Gates has, in fact, been increasing his investm... |
| 08.11.2013 | Intellectual Ventures teams with SURF incubator, aims to teach startups about patents | SURF Incubator founder Seaton Gras speaks on stage with Intellectual Ventures’ VP of Engineering Geoff Deane last night. IV is partnering with SURF to help educate startups about patent law. Photo courtesy of IV’s Nathon Sims.
Intellectual ... |
| 09.10.2013 | SeventySix Capital portfolio company Xtify gets acquired by IBM [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Osage University Partners participated in an $11.8 million Series A round for Evolve Technologies, a Seattle-area metamaterials company, and in a $45.9M Series C round for San Diego-based Ottonomy, which develops inner... |
| 08.10.2013 | Intellectual Ventures' Evil Knows No Bounds: Buys Patent AmEx Donated For Public Good… And Starts Suing | Intellectual Ventures may be running out of cash, but that doesn’t mean it’s slowed down the pace of evildoing. If you look over its recent lawsuits, you’ll notice that over the summer, Intellectual Ventures was busy suing a bunch of banks,... |
| 03.10.2013 | Intellectual Ventures slows down patent-hoarding efforts while raising new funds (report) | When you go to Intellectual Ventures‘ website, it talks about “taking vaccines the extra mile” or “revolutionizing the dairy industry.”
Lofty words for a patent troll.
However, things may not be going so well for the firm. Reuters published... |
| 20.09.2013 | Shane Harris on Nathan Myhrvold's Paper | Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a story about Nathan Myhrvold's Lawfare Research Paper Series paper: "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action." Along the way, it also contains some nice words about Lawfare. It opens:
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| 30.08.2013 | Roundup: News from Optimum, Tagboard, BoldIQ, Twitter, IV, and Donuts | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It turns out Seattle’s Optimum Energy gained some significant strategic investors in its latest financing round. Read on for details on that, plus funding for Tagboard and Bol... |
| 30.08.2013 | Evolv Technologies Raises $11.8M in Funding | Evolv Technologies, Inc., a Wayland, MA-based company that will commercialize new metamaterials-based imaging and detection technology for use in airports and other high-risk facilities, raised $11.8m in funding.
Backers included Bill Gates... |
| 29.08.2013 | Bill Gates Invests in Boston’s Evolv, an Intellectual Ventures Spinout | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Boston startup Evolv Technologies surfaced earlier this month with an $11.8 million fundraising round, nobody tied to the company would talk about what it’s doing. Today,... |
| 14.08.2013 | Bill Gates still helping known patent trolls obtain more patents | Enlarge / Bill Gates answering questions on Reddit in 2013.
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| 03.07.2013 | Intellectual Ventures Says Patent Trolling, Shaking Down Actual Innovators Is The American Way | Ah, Intellectual Ventures, and its hamfisted attempts to make itself and its massive patent trolling operation look good. Today it tried to wrap itself in the American Flag for July 4th, by posting the results of a “survey” that it commissi... |
| 03.07.2013 | Nathan Myhrvold on "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action" (Lawfare Research Paper Series) | A few weeks ago, I found myself at dinner in Seattle with a man named Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold, for readers who have never heard of him, is the founder and CEO of a company called Intellectual Ventures. He used to be the chief technology o... |
| 05.06.2013 | Intellectual Ventures Responds To This American Life & President Obama By… Filing More Patent Lawsuits | Ah, Intellectual Ventures. Over the weekend, This American Life ran their report updating a critical look at Intellectual Ventures from two years ago by showing that the shell company, whose patent IV had insisted was a perfect example of I... |
| 09.05.2013 | Revealed: The winners of the 2013 GeekWire Awards | Co-founder Amy Balliett accepts the award on behalf of Killer Infographics for Geekiest Office Space.
Phew. Now that was fun.
We just got off the stage at the 2013 GeekWire Awards at the EMP in Seattle, naming winners in 14 geeky categories... |
| 02.05.2013 | Giant Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Does 'Study' To Show How Much Everyone Loves Patents | Apparently Intellectual Ventures’ attempts to improve its dismal reputation as the worlds largest, most obnoxious patent troll don’t seem to involve finding a legitimate business to be in, or actually doing something to help the world, but ... |
| 30.04.2013 | GeekWire Awards: Keynote revealed, last chance to vote | We’re gearing up for the GeekWire Awards, May 9 at the EMP in Seattle, and today we’re pleased to announce that the keynote speaker at the event will be Chris DeVore — the startup veteran and angel investor who has played a key role in the ... |
| 24.01.2013 | Tech Moves: Hark hires a Bing vet; Vertafore bulks up; IV adds Duke scientist; etc. | Rajeev Chand
Rajeev Chand has been named director of product development at Hark, the Seattle startup that distributes hundreds of thousands of sound clips from movies and TV shows. Chand, who will manage the Web site and user experience, w... |
| 20.12.2012 | Intellectual Ventures: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally Normal | Back in 2010, we wrote about a report suggesting that Intellectual Ventures was using somewhere around 1000 shell companies to hide many of its patent shakedown attempts. For years, IV itself liked to say that it wasn’t involved in any pate... |
| 19.12.2012 | Kodak Agrees To Sell Digital Imaging Patent Portfolio For $525M To Consortium Of 12 Licensees, Including Apple, Google, Facebook | Kodak has agreed to sell its digital imaging portfolio to a consortium of 12 licensees for $525 million, organized by patent-holding company Intellectual Ventures and patent risk advisory firm RPX Corporation. It said it will use the procee... |
| 18.12.2012 | Is safe, green thorium power finally ready for prime time? | If you’ve not been tracking the thorium hype, you might be interested to learn that the benefits liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) have over light water uranium reactors (LWRs) are compelling. Alvin Weinberg, who invented both, favor... |
| 15.10.2012 | Crowdfunding campaign hopes to help startups steer clear of patent trolls | Patent analytics firm IP Checkups wants to expose the patent portfolio owned by Intellectual Ventures, one of the largest patent trolls in the United States.
“The idea is that this information will enable startups and investors to make more... |
| 24.09.2012 | Intellectual Ventures Settles Lawsuits with Asian Memory Companies | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Intellectual Ventures, the controversial patent-licensing company founded by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has settled a high-profile legal dispute with a... |
| 21.08.2012 | Gates Backs Intellectual Ventures Spinout: Antenna Maker Kymeta | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Updated 11:20 am, see final paragraph
Intellectual Ventures, the patent-licensing firm headed by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has spun out a new company ... |
| 21.08.2012 | Kymeta Closes $12M Funding | Kymeta, a Redmond, Wash.-based company that spun out from Intellectual Ventures (IV) to commercialize a new form of metamaterials-based satellite antenna, has closed a $12m funding round.
Backers include Bill Gates, Liberty Global and Lux C... |
| 26.06.2012 | We want our $30B back, patent trolls (we’re looking at you, Nathan Myhrvold!) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Companies that create or acquire portfolios of pa... |
| 26.06.2012 | We want our $30B back, patent trolls (we’re looking at you, Nathan Myhrvold!) | Companies that create or acquire portfolios of patents but produce no products with them cost the US economy $29 billion last year.
At least, that’s what a study completed by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer of Boston University recently ... |
| 14.05.2012 | Nvidia teams with Intellectual Ventures to acquire patents | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Graphics chip maker Nvidia has teamed up with Nat... |
| 14.05.2012 | Nvidia teams with Intellectual Ventures to acquire patents | Graphics chip maker Nvidia has teamed up with Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures to acquire a set of patents developed and owned by IPWireless.
The deal shows that the patent wars are a grim reality and big companies have to arm themse... |
| 05.05.2012 | Nathan Myhrvold, ex-MSFT CTO And Patent Powerbroker, Gobbles Up A Major Cookbook Award | Nathan Myhrvold, erstwhile Microsoft CTO and now patent powerbroker extraordinare, has hit the news this weekend, but it’s not for his latest licensing deal with a mobile phone maker, or for a lawsuit against a tech company (or three) that ... |
| 23.11.2011 | Troll The Troll | Never troll a troll, say men and women much wiser than moi.
To them, I say no, in this case it’s perfectly fine to troll the troll.
From the funny dude who brought you the Mark by Mark Zuckerberg collection, now comes a website where you ca... |
| 10.10.2011 | Why Innovatio’s Wi-Fi Patent Rampage is a Good Thing | According to the Patent Examiner, a company called Innovatio IP Ventures is suing individual branches of hotel chains for use of Wi-Fi. Though I’m staunchly against software patents – and by extension software patent lawsuits – I think this... |
| 07.10.2011 | Google Sues Itself With A Little Help From Intellectual Ventures | "I want a piece of myself." Image by David Saracino
If there was ever a question about the absurdity of Intellectual Ventures and the patent protection racket it’s running, the recent news that IV is suing Motorola Mobility, over ... |
| 06.10.2011 | Intellectual Ventures Sues Motorola Amid Acquisition by Google – an IV Investor | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Intellectual Ventures is stepping up its position in the mobile patent wars, suing Motorola Mobility in federal court today for allegedly infringing on a range of patents cove... |
| 06.10.2011 | Intellectual Ventures Sues Motorola Mobility For Infringement; Guess Who's Trying To Cause Trouble For Google? | You can almost hear Intellectual Ventures’ lawyers cackling with glee in announcing that they’ve filed their latest patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola Mobility — the company that Google is buying for its patents. Clearly, this is ... |
| 08.08.2011 | Did HTC Get a Patent Application that would Cover Apple's iCloud? | Google (GOOG) has whined about Android being bullied via patent lawsuits -- "Ma, Stevie Bullmer and Steve Jobs are picking on me again!" -- but it is hardly the only direct target. Its hardware vendor partners have been contributi... |
| 07.08.2011 | Patents and Unions: When Good Intentions Go Horribly Wrong | Watch me ruin your Sunday afternoon with one word. Ready? Here we go.
Patents.
This week on NBC’s Press:Here we talked about the topic most of our readers equate with a long, slow, painful root canal. Or worse. Laura Sydell of NPR was also ... |
| 05.08.2011 | HTC buys Dashwire for $18.5M, gets cloud phone backup and patents | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Slowly but surely, HTC is building up its software expertise. The smartphone maker announced this morning that it has acquired Seattle-... |
| 05.08.2011 | HTC buys Dashwire for $18.5M, gets cloud phone backup and patents | Slowly but surely, HTC is building up its software expertise. The smartphone maker announced this morning that it has acquired Seattle-based Dashwire, creator of a mobile backup and synchronization service for smartphones, for $18.5 million... |
| 29.07.2011 | Intellectual Ventures' Response To This American Life: Oh Those Crazy Reporters Don't Understand Disruption | Wow. I just came across Intellectual Ventures’ almost entirely content-less “perspective” concerning the recent This American Life episode that compared Intellectual Ventures to an organized crime shakedown outfit, noting that the company a... |
| 24.07.2011 | Intellectual Ventures responds to This American Life exposé: ‘We fundamentally disagree’ | Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm and invention house founded by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, was already-well known in technology circles. But the Bellevue-based company has been thrust into the national ... |
| 28.06.2011 | BlueCat enters patent deal with Intellectual Ventures | Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm operated by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold, has inked a deal with BlueCat Networks of Toronto. As part of the agreement, BlueCat has acquired patents from Intellectua... |
| 03.05.2011 | Bill Gates touts nuclear energy, says coal kills more people | Nuclear energy can be made safe in part through advanced computer simulation and next-generation power plant designs, according to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. The software billionaire, an investor in Bellevue’s TerraPower, touted the b... |
| 03.05.2011 | Bill Gates On Nuclear Energy: Compared To Coal, It Is Still Safer In Terms Of People "Killed Per Kilowatt Hour" | After the nuclear disaster in Japan at the Fukushima reactors, the general public is understandably skittish about nuclear energy once again. But not Bill Gates . Speaking today at a Wired business conference in New York City, he is talking... |
| 11.04.2011 | Ask a VC: Izhar Armory Defends Patents, Answers Reader Questions (TCTV) | Izhar Armory of Charles River Ventures was my guest on Ask a VC this week and he answered a host of reader questions including whether Twitter should be making money from celebrity Tweets, whether MBSAs aspiring to be entrepreneurs should d... |
| 11.04.2011 | ZuluTime Issued Patent For Location Aware Wireless Networks | Geoff Rhoads, co-founder of ZuluTime, a company developing location-based services for wireless networks, is a prolific inventor. The amateur astronomer and astrophysicist has over 300 patents to his name, ranging from digital watermarking ... |
| 07.04.2011 | Ask a VC: Izhar Armony Answers Your Questions | Ask a VC has been sporadic with my travel schedule, but we’re back this week. My guest is Izhar Armony of Charles River Ventures. He brings a different perspective to the show for a few reasons.
For one thing, he’s from the East Coast. And ... |
| 06.04.2011 | Seattle startup Dashwire inks licensing deal with Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures | Dashwire is a small mobile software company. But the Seattle upstart still has to worry about patent issues, and because of that the company today announced that it has entered into an agreement to secure certain patents from the Bellevue p... |
| 18.03.2011 | Laser beam uses graphics chip to identify and zap mosquitoes | Graphics have proven to be very useful in powering video games where you can zap huge numbers of bad guys in a minute. But now they may prove useful in powering lasers that can zap live mosquitoes out of the sky — all in the name of elimina... |
| 17.03.2011 | On Nuclear Power: Regulating Our Reaction | As a result of the ongoing tragedy in Japan, in particular the threat of meltdown or catastrophic radiation release from the Fukushima nuclear power plants, there has been a renewal of the discussion of nuclear power and its risks. As a tec... |
| 07.02.2011 | As Non-Proliferation Treaty Takes Effect, Should Nukes Be Seen As Clean Energy Source? | This weekend, a ratified nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States went into effect, reducing and limiting each nation’s allowable arsenal of nuclear weapons. The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 2) also all... |
| 24.01.2011 | Patent Risk Advisory Firm RPX Files For An IPO | “Defensive patent aggregator” RPX (Rational Patent) filed an S-1 form with the SEC on Friday, stating its intention to go public. According to the form, RPX is looking to sell up to $100 million of its shares in an IPO underwritten by Goldm... |
| 13.01.2011 | Justice Department's Top Terrorism Prosecutor Goes Patent Troll | We’ve certainly had our issues with the way the Justice Department has dealt with certain terrorism “threats” — specifically with its “thwarting” of its own bomb plots, and ridiculously amateurish attempts to create informants, who often ma... |
| 08.12.2010 | Is Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures becoming a patent troll? (poll) | Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, has insisted for the past decade that his firm Intellectual Ventures has been collecting patents to enable new inventions.
But today, Intellectual Ventures has sued nine big... |
| 08.12.2010 | Intellectual Ventures Files First Patent Lawsuits Against Nine Firms Including McAfee, Symantec | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Bellevue, WA-based Intellectual Ventures said today it has filed three patent infringement lawsuits against a total of nine companies in three different technology sectors—sof... |
| 08.12.2010 | Is Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures becoming a patent troll? (poll) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology offi... |
| 14.06.2010 | Gates, Khosla-backed TerraPower lands $35M to launch a new era of nuclear | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Environmental and policy hurdles continue to stym... |
| 14.06.2010 | TerraPower, Gates and Myhrvold’s Nuclear Play, Nabs $35M from Charles River, Khosla Ventures | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
What were we just saying about cross-pollinating ideas between Seattle, Boston, and San Francisco? As if to hammer home the point, Bellevue, WA-based nuclear reactor startup T... |
| 14.06.2010 | TerraPower Raises $35M in Series B Financing | TerraPower, LLC, a Bellevue, Washington-based company focused on developing new ways to make electricity using nuclear reactors, raised $35m in Series B financing round.
Investors in the round include Charles River Ventures and Khosla Ventu... |
| 14.06.2010 | Gates, Khosla-backed TerraPower lands $35M to launch a new era of nuclear | Environmental and policy hurdles continue to stymie nuclear development in the United States despite rapid growth in Europe. But a relatively new Seattle-based company called TerraPower is hoping to revamp nuclear’s public image with brand ... |
| 03.05.2010 | The Future of Patent Wars: More of the Same, but Less Litigation, Says John Amster of RPX | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Intellectual property battles are a perennial hot-button topic in the tech world. Recently we’ve been hearing a lot about so-called “patent trolls,” companies that don’t produ... |
| 26.02.2010 | Breakthrough Ideas: Hanauer, Hood, Myhrvold to Keynote Xconomy Event at UW | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Entrepreneurs need to think bigger. Big companies need to think bigger. Everyone needs to think bigger. Including Xconomy.
That’s why we’re organizing our biggest event in Sea... |
| 19.02.2010 | Permissionless Innovation and Patents | My partner Brad Burnham wrote a post today explaining why he disagrees with Nathan Myhrvold's recent Harvard Business Review piece in defense his patent holding company,Intellectual Ventures.
In the post, Brad talks about the power of "... |
| 18.02.2010 | Nathan Myhrvold Shares Plan to Create Invention Capital Industry, but Skeptics Abound | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Intellectual Ventures has been making a lot of waves lately. Today the Bellevue, WA-based firm, focused on the business of invention and patents, laid out its arguments for cr... |
| 30.01.2009 | What will Nathan Myhrvold do with microprocessor patents? | Intellectual Ventures, the patent-licensing firm created by technologist Nathan Myhrvold, has purchased the patent portfolio of microprocessor maker Transmeta, according to an announcement yesterday.
Intellectual Venture Funding — owned by ... |
| 11.12.2008 | How To Invent: Tips on Global Technology from Patrick Ennis of Intellectual Ventures (Part 1) | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Why can’t big companies invent? How should inventors handle their intellectual property? And what are countries around the world doing on these fronts? I recently stopped by I... |
| 24.11.2008 | Is RPX's "Defensive Patent Aggregation" Simply Patent Extortion By Another Name? | Patent litigation is getting so bad that a new startup, RPX Corp. (aka, Rational Patent) is gearing up to help companies defend themselves specifically against patent trolls (organizations that buy up patent portfolios with the express inte... |
