Patent Firm Lays Global Plans. Intellectual Ventures Is Seeking $2 Billion As Strategy Shifts

Intellectual Ventures LLC, a low-profile investment firm run by former Microsoft Corp. executive Nathan Myhrvold, is laying plans to go global: It hopes to raise as much as $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from universities in Asia.

By REBECCA BUCKMAN

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