SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intellectual Ventures, a multi-billion-dollar firm that virtually invented a new market for patents and inventions, has curtailed its patent buying in the past few months, ...

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?

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 ...

The secretive and extremely well-funded patent aggregator had its doubters when it said it wasn't going to follow the troll model. But so far Intellectual Ventures has raked in at least a half-billion ...

Mobile phone maker HTC today announced a licensing deal that gives it acess to a large collection of patents owned by Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based firm run by Nathan Myhrvold, the former ...

Intellectual Ventures (IV) has formed a joint venture with CollinsWoerman to commercialise new inventions for the design and construction of mid-rise and high-rise housing from a kit of prefabricated ...

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 ...