We want our $30B back, patent trolls (we’re looking at you, Nathan Myhrvold!)

June 26, 2012 6:00 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Companies that create or acquire portfolios of patents but produce no products with them cost the US economy $29 billion last year.

At least, that’s what a study completed by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer of Boston University recently …

Patent investor Nathan Myhrvold is okay with being unpopular, damn it

May 30, 2012 11:45 AM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

Intellectual Ventures founder and chief executive Nathan Myhrvold doesn’t need you to like him.

“I’m okay with not being popular. I never was a popular kid in my class, and I’m not a popular kid in this class,” he said, …

Clash of the titans! Infamous patent troll Intellectual Ventures sues AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile

February 16, 2012 9:57 AM Ben Popper
Ben Popper

Intellectual Ventures is suing AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, accusing them of infringing on 14 separate patents. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware today, Intellectual Ventures, a private company that has made a business of producing, collecting, …