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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...

I've written a number of pieces about the inherent flaws of patents, especially in the field of software. Those are mostly to do with...

Back in September, Mozilla made an announcement: This week Mozilla joined Open Invention Network as a licensee. OIN is an organization which...

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...

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

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

One of the central issues facing free software around the world is what can be done about the threat of software patents. These are fundamen...

Good to see that I don't have a, er, monopoly on outraged posts about intellectual monopolies: This is why the idea of Intellectual Pro...

So the anonymous patent troll tracker is anonymous no more : My name is Rick Frenkel. I started in IP over 10 years ago, as a law clerk at L...

Do not miss this fascinating paper , which looks at spooky parallels between today's patent trolls, and what were called "patent sh...

Well, that nice Mr. Ballmer did warn us, and here it is: Plaintiffs, IP Innovation L.L.C. and Technology Licensing Corporation (collectivel...

Good point here about a big problem with the apparently welcome Peer to Patent project: Helping patent trolls with their QA is like going ...

Who needs patent trolls when you've got patent wimps ? If broad patent reform is a lost cause - as seems probable - Mr. Balsillie and Mr...

I've written often enough about patent absurdities, so it's been a real pleasure to observe this last week not one, but three promis...