BBC Offers MP3 Podcast Covering Interview with Mr. Nathan Myhrvold.
As invention and Intellectual Property become ever more important for companies worldwide, Mr. Nathan Myhrvold, head of Intellectual Ventures and former chief scientist at Microsoft, explains how he is seeking to profit from this change:
"[...] Intellectual Ventures is an invention company. We conceive and patent our own inventions in-house through a world-renowned staff of internal and external scientists and engineers. We also acquire and license patented inventions from other inventors around the world. Our network of invention sources includes: large and small businesses, governments, academia, and individual inventors. These inventions span a diverse range of technologies including: software, semiconductors, wireless, consumer electronics, networking, lasers, biotechnology, and medical devices. Our current focus is on developing our invention portfolio. Over time, we intend to market our portfolio on a broad and non-exclusive basis through a variety of channels including spin-out companies. [...]"
The well-known BBC Journalist Mr. Peter Day brings an exciting interview with Mr. Myhrvold in his brodcast "In Business" which went on air yesterday. It is also available as a Podcast [11 MByte mp3].
Mr. Myhrvold thinks of his company eventually becoming in the world of patent assets that what CocaCola is today in terms of trade mark assets and what Microsoft or Hollywood are today in terms of copyright assets. Anti-patent campaigners surely won't like this interview but the more it is worth to be listened at.
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Dipl.-Phys. Axel H Horns is Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney),
European Patent Attorney as well as European Trade Mark Attorney. In particular, he is Member of: