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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

TerraPower joins other big ideas in “Abundance”

From growing algae-based petroleum that eats carbon dioxide, to a “smart” energy grid that manages electricity consumption and storage as efficiently as possible, there’s no ...

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

IV Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile

Today IV filed a patent infringement complaint against AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile in the U.S. District Court of Delaware.

IV’s Chief Litigation Counsel Melissa ...

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Friday, February 10, 2012

IV’s Ken Lustig in Forbes: No, the Patent System is Not Broken

This week, Ken Lustig, VP and head of strategic acquisitions at IV, contributed a guest column to the Forbes Leadership Forum in which he sheds ...

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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Intellectual Ventures and Stoel Rives LLP File Successful Amicus Brief

Last November, IV worked with outside counsel, Stoel Rives LLP, to file an amicus brief in the case of Marine Polymer Technologies, Inc. v. HemCon, ...

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Friday, February 03, 2012

IV Partners with Edith Cowan University on Invention Development

Yesterday we announced a strategic partnership with Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, Australia, to collaborate on the development of inventions on a global scale. ...

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Thursday, February 02, 2012

Invented in China

By Sheng Yan

For years China has acted as the assembly line of the world’s great ideas. Apple’s iPhone, invented and developed in Cupertino, is ...

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

IV in the News: Nathan Myhrvold on the Fears and Hopes of the Newspaper Business

In the January installment of his monthly contributed column to Bloomberg View, IV CEO Nathan Myhrvold opines on the shortcomings of the advertising-focused business model ...

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

News You Can Use

It’s only two weeks into 2012, and already the new year has delivered a slew of game-changing technologies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Last ...

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Thursday, January 05, 2012

IV Speaks: January 2012

Interested in hearing more from IV in 2012? Members of the Intellectual Ventures team regularly speak at legal and technology industry events around the world. ...

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

IV in the News – A New Year, a New Era of Invention

As 2011 comes to a close and news outlets draw up their inevitable year-end lists, one 2011 factoid caught our eye. “iPhone” was the most ...

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