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Big Patent Firm Sues Nine Tech Firms
Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures.
Zuma Press
Technology companies on Wednesday received troubling news that some had feared for years: Intellectual Ventures LLC has started suing.
The secretive firm co-founded by former Microsoft Corp. Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold has raised $5 billion to amass thousands of patents over the past decade.
Unlike most specialists in the field, Intellectual Ventures has avoided litigation, persuading big tech companies to become investors in his firm—along with payments that sometimes came to hundreds of millions of dollars. But Mr. Myhrvold never ruled out lawsuits if negotiations failed.
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