why he says fine wine is best served from a blender. ♪ >> i am at intellectual ventures with nathan myhrvold lab that nathan co-founded in 2009. here scientists are designing laser guns to zap mosquitoes, and climate control. >> do you see yourself as a modern-day thomas edison? >> i am hoping to do something slightly different. edison's labs were really about one guy, thomas edison. what i am trying to do is create an environment and company that is about lots of inventors. i am not on every patent. i am not the inventor here. >> but this place is not just about inventing. patents are at the core of the .business. he has amassed so much intellectual property that the press sometimes calls him a patent troll. >> they say this is unfair, nathan is out there acquiring all these patents on everything. how can i create anything when i have to pay a heavy fee to a company like intellectual ventures because they have the patent on it? >> there are companies that have gotten used to not paying. they have gotten used to a situation where a university owns that or a little start up owns it. a start u