Graphics chip maker Nvidia has teamed up with Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures to acquire a set of patents developed and owned by IPWireless. The deal shows that the patent wars are a grim ...

SAN FRANCISCO/ WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - Seven years ago, Intellectual Ventures bought a patent on technology that helps detect malicious software embedded in digital content. The price?

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Intellectual Ventures is adding to its huge pile of patents ...

As US politicians from both parties call for legislation to curb abusive patent litigation, patent assertion entity Intellectual Ventures has revealed a searchable list of more than 33,000 of its ...

Patent holding company Intellectual Ventures is suing 12 companies, including Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Hynix Semiconductor, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, for infringing five of its patents Patent holding ...

Intellectual Ventures didn't hold its first invention session until August 2003. By then it had gained several crucial insights about its business model. One was that most manufacturing companies have ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold's firm Intellectual ...

A controversial investment fund run by a former Microsoft executive just added more fuel to the tech industry’s runaway patent wars by filing a new suit against AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. In court ...

It was a quiet week for deals in the Northwest, with a few partnerships formed in software, biotech, and intellectual property. -Bothell, WA-based MDRNA (NASDAQ: MRNA), a developer of RNA interference ...