I'm a long time fan of Danny's work and am disappointed in his affiliation with IV. I'd love to hear his side of the story. (I still have this fantasy that IV is an elaborate prank to demonstrate how awful the US patent system is, but at this point that'd be an awfully long con.)

Despite being a dangerous, destructive company, Intellectual Ventures has a lot of smart people associated with it. Myhrvold himself is no slouch and many of the folks who go to the infamous dinner parties with paralegals taking notes are interesting people.

Here's IV's marketing on some of their "inventors": http://www.intellectualventures.com/index.php/inventor-netwo... http://www.intellectualventures.com/index.php/inventor-netwo...