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.
5 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.
| Entity | Type | Patents now | Patents ever | Cases filed | Connections | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intellectual Ventures Assets 99 LLC | NPE | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| EAST WEST BANK | operating co | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
| HPS INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC, AS COLLATERAL AGENT | operating co | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
| PERCEPTIVE AUTOMATA, INC. | NPE | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | |
| Bank One, NA | — | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| CONVERSANT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC. | NPE | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDATION | university | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | |
| The Peter Norton Living Trust dated April 28, 1989 | — | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | |
| CONEXANT SYSTEMS, INC. | operating co | 0 | 6 | 0 | 18 | |
| Cypress Semiconductor Corporation | operating co | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 | |
| CRESTLINE DIRECT FINANCE, L.P. | — | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas | — | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | |
| Uniloc Luxembourg S.A. | NPE | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | |
| LB I Group Inc. | operating co | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Palm, Inc. | operating co | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | |
| Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | operating co | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Collateral Agent | operating co | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | |
| Northern Telecom Limited | operating co | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | |
| FGI WORLDWIDE LLC | operating co | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Orckit Communications Ltd. | operating co | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 |