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.

3 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
BATHULA, CHAKRAVARTHI S.; BUCKNER, KEVIN D.; HOFFMAN, LOU ANN; MERCED, ANGEL; RITA, ANTHONY E.; SENZ, SUE ANNE; WEBB, TIMOTHY A.individual0001
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK USA, N.A.operating co0001
LARSON, VICTOR; MUNGER, EDMUND COLBY; SCHMIDT, DOUGLAS CHARLES; SHORT III, ROBERT DUNHAM; WILLIAMSON, MICHAELindividual0001
NODA, REIKOindividual0001
FUJIWARA, SHINJI; MIZUNO, KAZUHIKO; WATANABE, SATORU; KAWAMURA, NOBUO; SUZUKI, YOSHIOindividual0001
Greenberg, Albert G.; Kompella, Ramana Rao; Snoeren, Alex C.; Yates, Jenniferindividual0001
GOESSLING, DANIEL F., LOGAN, JAMES, CALL, CHARLES G.individual0001
SHAIK, CHEMANindividual0002
CHEN, HSUAN-HSU, CHENG, PO-LUN, HSU, SHIH-CHIEH, TING, SHYH-FANN, TSENG, CHU-YIN, WU, CHIH-CHIANGindividual0001
Royal Vista Capital LLC—0001
AWARE, INC.operating co0001
MCKENZIE, ROBERT, GILLINGHAM, PETERindividual0001
GILLINGHAM, PETER, MR.individual0001
Cohen, Yuvalindividual0001
SUN, FENG-QING; GATES, JAMES; OLSEN, RICHARD IAN; SATO, DARRYL L.individual0001
IMAGINATION SOFTWARE, INC., KLEIN, LAWRENCE C.operating co0001
HALT, JR., GERALD B.individual0001
Volpe & Koenig PCoperating co0001
BRADY, COLINindividual0001
YAHOO! INC.operating co0001
EXCALIBUR IP, LLCshell LLC0002
ACACIA RESEARCH GROUP LLC; AMERICAN VEHICULAR SCIENCES LLC; BONUTTI SKELETAL INNOVATIONS LLC; AND OTHERSNPE0002
3D NANOCOLOR CORP., BISMARCK IP INC., MAGNUS IP GMBH, MARATHON IP GMBH, MARATHON VENTURES S.A.R.L, MEDTECH DEVELOPMENT DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, MOTHEYE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, MUNITECH IP S.A.R.L., NYANZA PROPERTIES, ORTHOPHOENIX, LLC, SYNCHRONICITY IP GMBH, SYNCHRONICITY IP LLC, TLI COMMUNICATIONS GMBH, TRAVERSE TECHNOLOGIES CORP., VERMILION PARTICIPATIONS, DBD CREDIT FUNDING LLCNPE0001
HPS INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC (f.k.a. HIGHBRIDGE PRINCIPAL STRATEGIES, LLC)operating co0001
CHENG, JUN; MIYOSHI, KENICHIindividual0001