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Nathan Myhrvold

Radical Surgery to Fix Software Patents

Radical Surgery to Fix Software Patents

By Bob Warfield on August 21, 2011

I’m from the camp that says we’re way past the point of patents fostering innovation, if they ever did.  It didn’t take me long reading Scoble’s post this morning about the value of WebOS’s patents to HP possibly making the unit a profitable venture to be reminded once again that while patents may be a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Hewlett-Packard, intellectual property, motorola, Nathan Myhrvold, Patent, TouchPad, webos | 1 Response

What’s With These Microsoft Patent Trolls?

What’s With These Microsoft Patent Trolls?

By Bob Warfield on December 31, 2010

Paul Allen and Nathan Myhrvold: what’s with these ex-Microsofties now turned Patent Trolls?  Was there something in the water at Microsoft or what? The Trolls that Stole Innovation’s Christmas I’m reading lately about Allen’s efforts to bring to bear a portfolio of patents filed by Interval Research, a company he founded once upon a time.  Myhrvold […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Intellectual Ventures, microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, Open source, patent troll, Paul Allen, SaaS

Laser Week

By Zoli Erdos on February 12, 2010

News on lasers of all sizes hitting targets of all sizes…  let’s start small – hey, small is beautiful, after all.  Besides, this is one laser you could own at a reasonable size one day. Small Gun, Lots of Small Targets Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold currently runs aptly named Intellectual Ventures.  At TED (not […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged California, defense, integrated suite, Intellectual Ventures, Laser, Nathan Myhrvold, Science, TED

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