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For those that don’t know the primary author is Nathan Myhrvold who was the first CTO at Microsoft. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold https://en.
by flower-giraffe 2y ago
For those that don’t know the primary author is Nathan Myhrvold who was the first CTO at Microsoft.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold
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- dluan 2y agoand founder of the largest patent troll "Intellectual Ventures". both efforts now feel dated and cringey.
- azinman2 2y agoI don’t hear about it anymore. What happened to it?
- AlanYx 2y agoThey're still around. They spawned a whole minor industry of patent licensing entities.
- erikerikson 2y agoA Texas court reduced the viability of the business with one of its rulings. This meant that Intellectual Ventures had to spin out a bunch of companies to actually defend the patents they held. I believe they had mixed success. An example is Pivotal Commware.