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Susman Godfrey Represents Intellectual Ventures in an Amicus Brief in KSR v. Teleflex, a Supreme Court Case That Will Define the Obviousness Standard for Patents
October 18, 2006
Susman Godfrey represented Intellectual Ventures in an amicus brief in KSR v. Teleflex, a Supreme Court case that will define the obviousness standard for patents. The brief urged the Court to retain the obviousness standard in order to adequately protect small businesses, independent inventors, and the process of invention. Representing Intellectual Ventures were Susman Godfrey attorneys Matthew Berry, Justin Nelson, and Brooke Taylor.
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IV Moves from Myth to Reality
August 1, 2006
IV Moves from Myth to Reality. This article originally ran in issue 19 of Intellectual Asset Management magazine, published by Globe White Page, London (www.iam-magazine.com). Reprinted with permission. Until recently, Intellectual Ventures had operated in almost total secrecy, revealing nothing and seemingly happy to allow rumours about its business model become accepted truth. Now, however, senior directors Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Detkin are beginning to talk.
Author: Victoria Slind-Flor
Source: Intellectual Asset Management
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Inside Nathan Myhrvold’s Mysterious New Idea Machine
July 3, 2006
Cover Story: Inside Nathan Myhrvold’s Mysterious New Idea Machine (search "Myhrvold" for direct link)
Author: Michael Orey, with Moira Herbst in New York
Source: Business Week
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Intellectual Ventures, LLC (“IV”) Announces That Its Inventors Have Recently Filed Its 500th Patent Application
June 26, 2006
Intellectual Ventures, LLC (“IV”) announces its team of staff and senior inventors has recently filed its 500th patent application. By bringing together some of the world’s top scientists and technologists and providing them resources and a collaborative environment, IV’s invention team is innovating in areas such as information processing, wireless communications, digital imaging, biomedical devices and advanced particle physics.
Source: Intellectual Ventures
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Annals of Innovation: “In the Air”
June 25, 2006
Annals of Innovation: Who says big ideas are rare?
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Source: The New Yorker
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Who’s Afraid of Nathan Myhrvold?
June 25, 2006
Nathan Myhrvold says he doesn’t know what everybody is so upset about.
Author: Nicholas Varchaver
Source: Fortune Magazine
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Inventing the future
April 3, 2006
Brainstorming in a swamp. Whipping up a blizzard of patent applications. And cutting a raft of business deals. That’s the new strategy being field-tested by Nathan P. Myhrvold, the man formerly known as “Microsoft's Brain,” who wants to revolutionize technology transfer and improve the quality of inventions flowing into the marketplace.
Author: Robert Weisman
Source: The Boston Globe
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Intellectual Ventures Joins Top Inventors on Amicus Brief
March 10, 2006
On behalf of many of the most important American inventors of our time, Susman Godfrey has filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in the eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange L.L.C. case set for oral argument this term.
Source: Susman Godfrey LLP
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Roadblocks, Toll Roads, and Bridges: Using a Patent Portfolio Wisely by Peter Detkin
March 1, 2006
This content is excerpted from the new John Wiley & Sons book, Making Innovation Pay: People Who Turn IP Into Shareholder Value (0-471-73337-7, March 2006) with permission from the publisher John Wiley & Sons.
Author: Peter Detkin
Source: Making Innovation Pay: People Who Turn IP Into Shareholder Value
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Patent troll or producer? The Evolution of Intellectual Property
January 14, 2006
A few times a month a handful of people gather at the Seattle-area headquarters of Intellectual Ventures, a company founded by Microsoft’s former chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, for “invention sessions.” During the meetings, staff scientists, financial experts and outside academics brainstorm visions for the future, guess the needs of tomorrow’s customers and theorize on applications and products to meet those demands. All the while Intellectual Ventures employees take notes and snap photos of the whiteboard where the inventors scribble notes and flow charts. It's all fodder for future patent applications. So far, the company has received one patent that grew out of its invention sessions and has 300 applications outstanding.
Author: Jason Kirby
Source: Financial Post
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