FYI: Great NPR radio show on Saturday re patent trolls and patents and
innovation in general

When Patents Attack
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/25/138576167/when-patents-attack

Planet Money's Alex Blumberg and NPR's Laura Sydell co-reported this
week's episode of This American Life. Check out TAL's "Ways to Listen"
page to find out when the show airs on your local station, and how you
can download the podcast. Here's the story.

Nathan Myhrvold is a genius and a polymath. He made hundreds of
millions of dollars as Microsoft's chief technology officer, he's
discovered dinosaur fossils, and he recently co-authored a six-volume
cookbook that "reveals science-inspired tech­niques for prepar­ing
food."

Myhrvold has more than 100 patents to his name, and he's cast himself
as a man determined to give his fellow inventors their due. In 2000,
he founded a company called Intellectual Ventures, which he calls "a
company that invests in invention."

But Myhrvold's company has a different image among many Silicon Valley insiders.

The influential blog Techdirt regularly refers to Intellectual
Ventures as a patent troll. IPWatchdog, an intellectual property site,
called IV "patent troll public enemy #1." These blogs write about how
Intellectual Ventures has amassed one of the largest patent portfolios
in existence and is going around to technology companies demanding
money to license these patents.

[...]

Continua qui: 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/25/138576167/when-patents-attack



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Manon Anne Ress
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