Ownership network

Asserters.

Every entity that has appeared as an assignee on a tracked US patent. Built from structured records extracted from each patent’s assignment-history dossier. Click any column header to sort; defaults to most cases filed. Entities markedNPE orshell LLC are flagged this way by the model from the patent dossier — known asserter lists, no products in commerce, registered-agent addresses, single-purpose Delaware/Texas LLCs. These classifications are inferences, not determinations, and may be wrong — treat an entity marked NPE or shell LLC as a possible one, to verify, not a confirmed one.

2 possible patent-rental round-trips — patents that moved A → B → A while B filed at least one infringement suit during its tenure. The round-trip is a structural pattern, not proof of intent: it can also reflect a security interest and release, a correction, or a financing deal. Flagged rows are marked below — treat them as leads to verify.

EntityTypePatents nowPatents everCases filedConnectionsFlags
Messmooperating co0001
CHEN, YU; SHIU, HSUAN-CHEN; YEH, CHE-SHOUindividual0001
MCGOWAN, ALBERT JOHN and GORDON, MICHAEL M.individual0001
Johansson, Kay; Karlsson, Kentindividual0001
MOBITV, INC.operating co0002
MOBITV, INC.; MOBITV SERVICES, INC.operating co0001
TIVO CORPORATIONoperating co0002
ADEIA GUIDES INC.; ADEIA MEDIA HOLDINGS LLC; ADEIA MEDIA SOLUTIONS INC.; ADEIA SEMICONDUCTOR BONDING TECHNOLOGIES INC.; ADEIA SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS LLC; ADEIA SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES LLCoperating co0001
EHRLACHER, EDWARD A., KRAVETS, LEONID, IGOE, PATRICK T., CONA, THOMASindividual0001
VOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC0002
Yongfei Hua, Xiaofeng Liuindividual0001
MARUVADA, S. PRASSAD; NORTHMORE, SCOTT A.; SMITH, JEFFREY A.; PAGE, ALANindividual0001
SPARTA ACQUISITION SUB, INCoperating co0001
SONIC SOLUTIONS; SPARTA ACQUISITION SUB II LLCoperating co0001
ALL MEDIA GUIDE, LLC; DIVX, LLC; SONIC SOLUTIONS LLCoperating co0001
APTIV DIGITAL, INC., GEMSTAR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INDEX SYSTEMS INC., ROVI GUIDES, INC., ROVI SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, ROVI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, SONIC SOLUTIONS LLC, STARSIGHT TELECAST, INC., UNITED VIDEO PROPERTIES, INC., VEVEO, INC.NPE0001
ROVI SOLUTIONS CORPORATION; ROVI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION; ROVI GUIDES, INC.; Tivo Solutions, Inc., VEVEO, INC.NPE0002
DTS, INC., IBIQUITY DIGITAL CORPORATION, INVENSAS CORPORATION, PHORUS, INC., ROVI GUIDES, INC., ROVI SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, ROVI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, TESSERA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC., TESSERA, INC., TIVO SOLUTIONS INC., VEVEO, INC.NPE0001
CONNOR, ROBERT JAMES, WEI, GE, ZHAO, Qipingindividual0001
SHEPARD, H. MICHAELindividual0001
JOSHUA A JOHNSON, CURT BRUNER, JEFFREY REH, CHRISTOPHER SQUIRES, BRIAN WILSONindividual0001
JEFFREY REH, CHRISTOPHER SQUIRES, BRIAN WILSON, JOSHUA JOHNSON, CURT BRUNERindividual0001
OWEN, Ryan Patrickindividual0001
LASCH, Romanindividual0001
DETLOFF, JOHN; KANG, GINO; ROGERS, BOBBY E.individual0001