Showing posts with label intellectual ventures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intellectual ventures. Show all posts
06 January 2013

How To Help Malaria Sufferers Without Using Patents: Crowdsourcing Diagnosis

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A little while back we wrote about Nathan Myhrvold's sniffy comment that if you're not doing anything to help people suffering f...
11 November 2012

Free Software Foundation Certifies 3D Printer -- And Why That Matters

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Last week Mike wrote about a new patent from Intellectual Ventures that seeks to assert ownership of the idea of DRM for 3D printing. ...
30 June 2012

Intellectual Ventures Loses Its Shine: Will Its Business Model Ever Work?

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Techdirt has always been sceptical about Nathan Myhrvold's business plan for Intellectual Ventures (IV) -- build up a huge portfolio o...
20 July 2011

Myhrvold Hoist By His Own (Patented) Petard

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There's a column doing the rounds at the moment that is generating some interest. It comes from the King of the Patent Trolls, Nathan ...
09 December 2010

I, For One, Welcome Our New Patent Overlords

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A significant event took place yesterday: potentially the biggest software patent troll of all has finally woken from its slumbers: Today In...
26 March 2010

The King of the Trolls Strikes Gold

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Well, this is rather droll. The other day I was writing about the patent troll to end all trolls, Intellectual Ventures. And now we have thi...
22 March 2010

Beware the King of the Trolls

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If you haven't heard of Intellectual Ventures, you will do. Set up by ex-Microsoftie Nathan Myhrvold, with investments from Microsoft am...
08 September 2009

Intellectual (Monopolies) Ventures

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I've been avoiding this story about nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures using patent trolls as proxies because it's just bey...
08 May 2008

Intellectual (Monopoly) Ventures

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Mike Masnick is a truly fantastic writer, because he begins a piece thus: Malcolm Gladwell is a truly fantastic writer ...only to end up pr...
13 November 2007

Sick, Sick, Sick: The Sickness Deepens

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I've warned you about this bloke before : Intellectual Ventures LLC, a low-profile investment firm run by former Microsoft Corp. executi...
27 April 2006

I've Seen the Future - and It's Patented

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The name Nathan Myhrvold probably doesn't strike fear into your heart; it may not even be known to you. But one day, rest assured, he w...