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Part 2 of Patrick Ennis’s interview on the Importance of Supporting an Invention Economy.
December 12, 2008
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 Intellectual Ventures in Bellevue, WA, to get the scoop from Patrick Ennis, IV’s global head of technology. Ennis was a venture capitalist with Arch Venture Partners in Seattle for 10 years before taking his current post in early 2008.
Author: Gregory T. Huang
Source: Xconomy.com
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Blue-Sky Thinking
December 12, 2008
Casey Tegreene must have one of the best jobs on the planet. The way he sees it, he’s something of a jazz conductor, jamming with some of the sharpest minds on the planet: renowned medical doctors, physicists, engineers and software specialists. Their mission? To create Intellectual Ventures' (IV) one and only “product”: brilliant ideas.
Author: Robin Lindley
Source: Washington Law & Politics
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How To Invent: Tips on Global Technology from Patrick Ennis of Intellectual Ventures (Part 1)
December 11, 2008
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 Intellectual Ventures in Bellevue, WA, to get the scoop from Patrick Ennis, IV’s global head of technology. Ennis was a venture capitalist with Arch Venture Partners in Seattle for 10 years before taking his current post in early 2008.
Author: Gregory T. Huang
Source: Xconomy.com
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The Problem Solver
December 8, 2008
Profile on Nathan Myhrvold, CEO and founder, Intellectual Ventures.
Author: Mike Ullmann
Source: Washington CEO
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Peter N. Detkin, Founder and Vice-Chairman presentation to Federal Trade Commission, December 5, 2008
December 5, 2008
On December 5, 2008, in Washington, D.C., the FTC held its first public hearing to explore the evolving market for intellectual property (IP). Intellectual Ventures’ founder and vice-chairman, Peter Detkin, presented.
Author: Peter N. Detkin
Source: Intellectual Ventures
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On the Road with Intellectual Ventures’ Global Head of Technology, Patrick Ennis
October 8, 2008
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.”
Author: Gregory T. Huang
Source: Xconomy.com
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Brief of Amici Curiae Intellectual Ventures, LLC, The General Electric Company and Dolby Laboratories, Inc., in Support of Appellees and Affirmance
October 3, 2008
Amici curiae Intellectual Ventures, LLC, the General Electric Company, and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (collectively, Amici), support the decision of the District Court invalidating the “Final Rules” of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) principally on the grounds that they are substantive, and thus unlawful given Congress’ lack of delegation of substantive rulemaking authority to the PTO. Amici also support Appellees’ arguments that the Final Rules are alternatively improper for being contrary to the existing patent law, vague and retroactive.
Author: Susman Godfrey, LLP; Intellectual Ventures, LLC; General Electric Co.; Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Source: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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Tech Guru Riles Industry by Seeking Huge Patent Fees
September 17, 2008
Millionaire Nathan Myhrvold, renowed in the computer industry as a Renaissance man, has a less lofty message for tech companies these days: Pay up.
Author: Amol Sharma and Don Clark
Source: The Wall Street Journal
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Transcript: Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures
September 15, 2008
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.)
Author: Amol Sharma
Source: The Wall Street Journal
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A Who’s Who of Geeking Out at Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures
September 3, 2008
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.
Author: Gregory T. Huang
Source: Xconomy
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