Quote of the day: 'Willing to be called a patent troll'

Nathan Myhrvold, CEO and founder of Intellectual Ventures, explains that all the name-calling he endured in a long career at Microsoft helps make him the perfect person for his new start-up aimed at getting together inventors for sessions he hopes will lead to profitable patents.

"...I've got a bunch of people who are probably going to call me names," he said. "And so, it's not my unique intellectual assets or financial assets. It may, in the end of the day, be thick skin that actually helps make this whole thing happen, because I'm willing to be called a patent troll."

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