Intellectual Ventures
From Techrights
Intellectual Ventures was conceived by a Microsoft executive, Nathan Myhrvold, around the time that Microsoft struggled on several fronts. Intellectual Ventures is backed by Bill Gates (privately). Today, Intellectual Ventures is the world's largest patent troll and it habitually uses other smaller firms (reportedly over 1,000 of them) do handle litigation and assist blackmail in a pyramid scheme-like fashion. Techrights has tracked Intellectual Ventures for several years and kept record of its activities in the posts below.
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[edit] 2013
[edit] 2012
- Microsoft Vultures Under Research Campaigns
- Microsoft Patent Trolls Get Staff From Microsoft While ‘Mother Ship’ Sues Google Over Android
- Slashdot and CBS/CNET Help Promote Patent Trolling
- Bill Gates is Openly Promoting Patent Trolls Which Attack Linux
- World’s Biggest Patent Troll, a Microsoft Offshoot, Takes Extortion Public Again
[edit] 2011
- Microsoft Extorts Linux Again, Its Troll Intellectual Ventures Suggested for Antitrust Intervention
- Weeks After Google Buys Part of Motorola Microsoft’s Patent Troll Sues Motorola
- Microsoft’s Patent Troll (IV) Helps Increase Microsoft Tax, BSA Changes Intellectual Monopoly Laws
- Microsoft’s Proxy Fights (via Patent Trolls) Emerge in the Courtroom
- Myhrvold’s “Criminal Enterprise”, Detkin’s Criticism of Extortionists and Terrorists (Which He Himself Became)
- Rage Against the Masochist
- Connection Between Patent Troll Lodsys and Former Microsoft CTO/Microsoft Proxy Highlighted
- Lodsys Patent Attacks on Android (Linux) Developers Come From Microsoft’s Former CTO
- Exclusive: Microsoft Patent Schemes Nobody Knows About
- Microsoft’s Three Musketeers (Gates, Allen, Myhrvold) Still Assault the Market With Patents
- SCO’s Strategic Consultant Mike Anderer Foresaw Microsoft-Organised Patent Lawsuits Against Linux (Through Small Companies)
- Microsoft-backed Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures, Takes More Toll and Lobbies the Government
- Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold Find New Ways to Extort the Competitors, Using Patents
- Microsoft Patent Trolls Intellectual Ventures and Interval Extortion Sue by Proxy, Directly
- Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Is Reportedly Extorting Linux Now
- Justice Department’s National Security Chief Becomes a ‘Patent Terrorist’ for Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold
[edit] 2010
- Red Hat Pushes for Patent Reform While Microsoft Patent Trolls Are Suing, Sometimes Losing
- Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Starts Attacking Companies Directly
- Intellectual Ventures and Other Microsoft-affiliated Groups Are Poisoning Linux With Patents
- Microsoft Sellouts Join Microsoft’s Racket Intellectual Ventures and Not OIN
- Microsoft Generates Massive Patent Troll Which Strikes Again
- Microsoft’s Patent Trolls at Intellectual Ventures and Acacia Are Attacking Again
- Intellectual Ventures Revisited as Facebook is Hoarding Patents; Apple Patents Other People’s Ideas/Implementations
- Nathan Myhrvold (Intellectual Ventures) Gives Patents for Another Company to Sue With
- Microsoft’s Software Patents Lobbyists and Patent Trolls
- Is Nathan Myrhvold’s and Bill Gates’ Pyramid Scheme Finally Collapsing?
- Gates Foundation Pays for Press Coverage of Its Work, Involved in Fatal Vaccination Disaster in India (With Merck), Collaborates With World’s Largest Patent Troll (IV)
- Durham Logistics Unmasked as Potential Intellectual Ventures Proxy
- Microsoft Sued by VirnetX (Again) and Kodak Alleges That Microsoft’s Patent Troll Bullies Companies Along With Ray Niro
- Microsoft’s Patent Racketeer Intellectual Ventures a Weapons Feeder of Patent Wars
- Intellectual Ventures “a Combination Mob Protection Racket + Ponzi Monetization Scheme”
- Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures Could be Biggest Racketeering Operation in the United States and Beyond
[edit] 2009
- Nathan Myhrvold Connected to Father of Patent Trolling, Ray Niro
- Microsoft Has the World’s Biggest Patent Troll, But What’s Up with Google?
- Microsoft Takes Software Patents Agenda Up a Notch
- Nathan Myhrvold/Bill Gates Use “Embrace and Extend” Against “Making it Easy for People to Do Competitive Operating Systems”
- Microsoft IP Ventures and Intellectual Ventures
- Why and How Microsoft Turned from a Software Company Into a Patent Aggressor/Taxman
- Patents Roundup: Linux, Microsoft, Apple, Patent Trolls and Reform
- Linus’ Old Employer Swept by Microsoft’s Patent Übertroll
[edit] 2008
- Patents Roundup: Microsoft|Myhrvold Trolls Fill Up Their Patent Basket
- Searete a Part of Intellectual Ventures, a Patent-trolling Firm
- Report: Bill Gates Becoming Patent Troll Like Nathan Myhrvold
- Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Own Patent Trolls Subjugate Indians; New Evidence of Ill Systems
- Microsoft Storms India with Patents, by Proxy
- Microsoft is a Major Patent Troll, By Proxy
- Bill Gates Backs Patent Trolls, Microsoft Gets More Patents
- Report: Microsoft’s Patent Racketeering Comes from Myhrvold
- Latest Attempt to Expand Software Patents to Europe; Microsoft Shenanigan Revisited
- Microsoft + Government + Patent Troll Push Against Free Software
[edit] 2007
- Nathan Myhrvold Intellectual Ventures Does Not Like GNU/Linux
- A Reader’s Perspective: Entering the Minds of the Patent Trolls
Also see Acacia.
