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10/8/2008 Gregory T. Huang — Xconomy.com
On the Road with Intellectual Ventures’ Global Head of Technology, Patrick Ennis
It’s 10:15 pm, and Patrick Ennis is in a taxi bound for the airport in Delhi, India. He’s getting ready for a 1:00 am flight to Beijing. The streets of India are legendary for displaying 2,000 years of transportation history in one place—animals, pedestrians, carts, bikes, cars, buses, trucks—and it sounds like tonight is no different. “I learned to drive in New York, but this is much harder,” says Ennis. Though it’s late at night, he adds, “It’s still 10 times as much traffic as Seattle.”
| 9/30/2008 Intellectual Ventures — Intellectual Ventures
Intellectual Ventures Expands Invention Efforts Globally
BELLEVUE, Wash. – September 30, 2008 -- Intellectual Ventures, LLC (“IV”) announces the formal launch of its Asian-based invention development efforts. During the month of October, IV founders, Nathan P. Myhrvold and Edward Jung, will host a series of press events and office openings in five countries across Asia.
| 9/17/2008 Amol Sharma and Don Clark — The Wall Street Journal
Tech Guru Riles Industry By Seeking Huge Patent Fees
Millionaire Nathan Myhrvold, renowed in the computer industry as a Renaissance man, has a less lofty message for tech companies these days: Pay up.
| 9/15/2008 Amol Sharma — The Wall Street Journal
Transcript: Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures
WSJ's Amol Sharma sat down with Nathan Myhrvold, founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures, at his Bellevue, Wash., headquarters. They discussed going to court to enforce patents, targeting the company's own investors for patent infringement and the return curve on nuclear reactor technology. (See related article.)
| 9/3/2008 Zusha Elinson — The Recorder
In on the Big Secret
Most companies that scored a high-profile recruit like IP lawyer Sanjay Prasad would trumpet it by blasting press releases at the tech and law media. But when you're Intellectual Ventures, the remarkably secretive -- and fast-growing -- Seattle patent holder, you don't even put his profile on your website.
| 9/3/2008 Gregory T. Huang — Xconomy
A Who’s Who of Geeking Out at Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures
When I visited Nathan Myhrvold last month at the Intellectual Ventures lab in Bellevue, WA, I didn’t get a chance to meet one of the lab’s most distinguished residents, science-fiction novelist Neal Stephenson. Myhrvold mentioned him during our meeting, but it was too early in the day to find him in the building. Stephenson, best known for his cyberpunk novel Snow Crash and mind-blowing historical fiction like Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle volumes, joined Intellectual Ventures part-time last year and usually comes into the lab in the afternoons, after his morning writing sessions at his Seattle home.
| 8/26/2008 Gregory T. Huang — Xconomy
With Intellectual Ventures, Nathan Myhrvold Out to Create “Invention Capital” Industry—and Stop Hurricanes, Malaria, and Global Warming in the Process (Part 2)
Yesterday, we ran the first half of a sit-down interview with Nathan Myhrvold, cofounder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue, WA-based invention laboratory and investment firm. Myhrvold, the former CTO of Microsoft (and an Xconomist), placed his current company’s goals in the context of venture capital and private equity, arguing that there is a real need to create what he calls an “invention capital” industry.
| 8/25/2008 Gregory T. Huang — Xconomy
With Intellectual Ventures, Nathan Myhrvold Out to Create “Invention Capital” Industry—and Reinvent Invention in the Process
This time last week, Nathan Myhrvold was sitting down with Bill Gates. Gates had just returned from the Olympics, where he had watched some high-profile ping-pong matches—a very hot ticket in China. The two former Microsoft colleagues were catching up, and their discussion turned to racquet sports, and the various technical differences between them.
| 8/15/2008 Eric Engleman — Puget Sound Business Journal
A brain reaction: Elite idea factory's biggest venture yet: safer and cheaper nuclear power plants
With presidential candidate John McCain and others promoting nuclear power as a solution to the nation's energy woes, a Bellevue invention factory is positioning itself to spark a revived nuclear industry.
| 7/13/2008 Andrew Bast — Newsweek
Failure Is an Option
What do you do when what you need to know hasn't been thought of yet?
| 7/4/2008 Eric Engleman — Puget Sound Business Journal
Bellevue patent-buying firm hires for growth in Asia
Intellectual Ventures LLC, the Bellevue patent-holding firm founded by former Microsoft chief technology office Nathan Myhrvold, is rapidly bulking up its staff and prepaing for a major expansion in Asia.
| 7/4/2008 Eric Engleman — Puget Sound Business Journal
Bellevue patent-buying firm hires for growth in Asia
Intellectual Ventures LLC, the Bellevue patent-holding firm founded by former Microsoft chief technology office Nathan Myhrvold, is rapidly bulking up its staff and prepaing for a major expansion in Asia.
| 4/18/2008 Dean Takahashi — VentureBeat
Hope for the Little Guys at the Intellectual Property Symposium
Small inventors, beware. You’ve got to be crazy to be an entrepreneur. You’ve got to be even crazier to be an inventor. Patent reform could change things, but opportunities abound in the nascent intellectual property marketplace.
| 3/7/2008 Peter N. Detkin, Founder, Vice-Chairman, Intellectual Ventures — Speech delivered to Washington State Bar Association, 13th Annual Intellectual Property Institute
Investing in Invention
Peter Detkin discusses business models focused on investing in invention.
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