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SPOTLIGHT: Inside look at Nathan Myhrvold's $400M experiment

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Nathan Myhrvold, the former Microsoft CTO, now runs a company called Intellectual Ventures, which has $400 million earmarked for buying patents. It's estimated that IV already owns 3,000 to 5,000 patents, but for what purpose? Some say they'll become the evil mother of all patent trolls. Article