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, ...

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 ...

Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, has insisted for the past decade that his firm Intellectual Ventures has been collecting patents to enable new inventions. But today, ...