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10/18/2006
Brief of Fallbrook Technologies, Inc.; Intellectual Ventures; Ellsworth International, Inc.; GE02 Technologies, Inc.; Mobile Productivity, Inc.; Composite Technology International, Inc.; Skyler Technology, Inc.; Private Management, Inc.; et. al
Susman Godfrey represented Intellectual Ventures in an amicus brief in KSR v. Teleflex, a Supreme Court case that will define the obviousness standard for patents. The brief urged the Court to retain the obviousness standard in order to adequately protect small businesses, independent inventors, and the process of invention. Representing Intellectual Ventures were Susman Godfrey attorneys Matthew Berry, Justin Nelson, and Brooke Taylor.
| 8/1/2006 Victoria Slind-Flor — Intellectual Asset Management
IV Moves from Myth to Reality
IV Moves from Myth to Reality. This article originally ran in issue 19 of Intellectual Asset Management magazine, published by Globe White Page, London (www.iam-magazine.com). Reprinted with permission.
Until recently, Intellectual Ventures had operated in almost total secrecy,
revealing nothing and seemingly happy to allow rumours about its business
model become accepted truth. Now, however, senior directors Nathan Myhrvold
and Peter Detkin are beginning to talk.
| 7/3/2006 Michael Orey, with Moira Herbst in New York — Business Week
"The Godfather of Invention"
July 3, 2006 cover story: Inside Nathan Myhrvold's Mysterious New Idea Machine (search "Myhrvold" for direct link)
| 6/26/2006 Intellectual Ventures
Intellectual Ventures files 500th patent application
Intellectual Ventures, LLC (“IV”) announces its team of staff and senior inventors has recently filed its 500th patent application. By bringing together some of the world’s top scientists and technologists and providing them resources and a collaborative environment, IV’s invention team is innovating in areas such as information processing, wireless communications, digital imaging, biomedical devices and advanced particle physics.
| 6/25/2006 Nicholas Varchaver — Fortune Magazine
Who's Afraid of Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold says he doesn't know what everybody is so upset about.
| 5/1/2006 Lisa Lerer — IP Law & Business
Mind Games
Intellectual Ventures happily invests in invention, while the tech world trembles in fear. An inside look at Nathan Myhrvold's $400 million IP experiment.
| 5/1/2006 Lisa Lerer — IP Law & Business
Mind Games
Intellectual Ventures happily invests in invention, while the tech world trembles in fear. An inside look at Nathan Myhrvold's $400 million IP experiment.
| 4/3/2006 Robert Weisman — The Boston Globe
Inventing the future
Brainstorming in a swamp. Whipping up a blizzard of patent applications. And cutting a raft of business deals.
That's the new strategy being field-tested by Nathan P. Myhrvold, the man formerly known as "Microsoft's Brain," who wants to revolutionize technology transfer and improve the quality of inventions flowing into the marketplace.
| 4/3/2006 Robert Weisman — The Boston Globe
Inventing the future
Brainstorming in a swamp. Whipping up a blizzard of patent applications. And cutting a raft of business deals.
That's the new strategy being field-tested by Nathan P. Myhrvold, the man formerly known as "Microsoft's Brain," who wants to revolutionize technology transfer and improve the quality of inventions flowing into the marketplace.
| 3/10/2006
BRIEF AMICI CURIAE OF MARTIN COOPER, RAYMOND DAMADIAN, LEROY HOOD, NATHAN MYHRVOLD, ROBERT RINES, BURT RUTAN, JAMES WEST, 14 OTHER INVENTORS, AND INTELLECTUAL VENTURES IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT
On behalf of many of the most important American inventors of our time, Susman Godfrey has filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in the eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange L.L.C. case set for oral argument this term.
| 3/1/2006 "Making Innovation Pay: People Who Turn IP Into Shareholder Value"
Roadblocks, Toll Roads, and Bridges: Using a Patent Portfolio Wisely
This content is excerpted from the new John Wiley & Sons book Making Innovation Pay: People Who Turn IP Into Shareholder Value (0-471-73337-7, March 2006) with permission from the publisher John Wiley & Sons. You may not make any other use, or authorize others to make any other use of this excerpt, in any print or non-print format, including electronic or multimedia. You may purchase the book from http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471733377.html
Correction to Peter Detkin profile: Mr. Detkin was not an associate at Kenyon and Kenyon; he was an associate at Fish and Neave.
| 1/14/2006 Jason Kirby — Financial Post
Patent troll or producer? : The evolution of intellectual property
“A few times a month a handful of people gather at the Seattle-area headquarters of Intellectual Ventures, a company founded by Microsoft's former chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, for "invention sessions." During the meetings, staff scientists, financial experts and outside academics brainstorm visions for the future, guess the needs of tomorrow's customers and theorize on applications and products to meet those demands. All the while Intellectual Ventures employees take notes and snap photos of the whiteboard where the inventors scribble notes and flow charts. It's all fodder for future patent applications. So far, the company has received one patent that grew out of its invention sessions and has 300 applications outstanding.
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