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Nathan Myhrvold and the Business Of Invention

Posted by Soulskill on from the ok-let's-run-with-that dept.

elwinc writes "There's a great New Yorker story about Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures company, whose business model is to nurture ideas, write patents, and sell them. Apparently they're filing about 500 patents a year including a passive thorium reactor which consumes waste from conventional reactors. On the lighter side, you can read how Nathan has achieved 'dominant T. rex market share.'" Though we've discussed Myhrvold and his company in the past, the New Yorker focuses more on how incredible it is to have a group of very intelligent people sitting around a table developing ideas.

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  1. That's what we need... by narfman0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    An idea pimp!

    1. Re:That's what we need... by mcmonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Pimps are the epitome of coolness.

      I was like you once. Young, idealistic.

      Now, how do I get these dead fish out of my shoes?

  2. What a great idea... by oodaloop · · Score: 3, Funny

    "the New Yorker focuses more on how incredible it is to have a group of very intelligent people sitting around a table developing ideas."

    Hey, maybe the place where they THINK could be called a TANK. I can't believe no one's thought of this before!

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  3. Re:Ideas by lawn.ninja · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just came up with 8 pages of single spaced inventions too, while I was taking a shit. Anyone want to know what my inventions were composed of?

  4. Re:patent troll by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Developing ideas? Give me a break, they buy patents and sell licenses. It's your basic patent troll outfit.
    But they're really smart people and they are brainstorming and they are nurturing ideas and they are from Bellevue Washington where all the real Microsofties live, so they must be innovating...
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  5. Re:Ideas by BrotherBeal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone want to know what my inventions were composed of? Corn?
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