This Week's Business Week Cover Story - The Godfather of Invention

COVER STORY
The Godfather Of InventionThe inside story on Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures. Will snapping up thousands of patents make it a leader in innovation—or litigation?
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Online Extra: Intellectual Ventures: Focus on Patents
Cofounded by a former Microsoft biggie, IV is a brainstorming session, invention breeding ground, and patent powerhouse rolled into one
Online Extra: Inside the Innovation Machine
Privately held and obsessively secret, Intellectual Ventures' operations have been a mystery to many in the tech world
Online Extra: Slide Show: Scary Smart
Meet the scientists and engineers who are IV's senior inventors