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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AQUA PRODUCTS, INC. | operating co | 1 | 6 | 0 | 5 | |
| THOMSON LICENSING | operating co | 1 | 6 | 0 | 11 | |
| TP Lab, Inc. | NPE | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| CommScope Technologies LLC | operating co | 1 | 6 | 0 | 5 | |
| MIDCAP FINANCIAL TRUST | operating co | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | operating co | 1 | 7 | 0 | 5 | |
| Personics Holdings, Inc. | shell LLC | 1 | 7 | 0 | 10 | |
| Z124 | NPE | 1 | 7 | 0 | 5 | |
| LSI Corporation; Agere Systems LLC | operating co | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Fortress Credit Co LLC | — | 1 | 7 | 0 | 4 | |
| ADC Telecommunications, Inc. | operating co | 1 | 8 | 0 | 14 | |
| CREE, INC. | operating co | 1 | 8 | 0 | 10 | |
| AVAYA INC. | operating co | 1 | 8 | 0 | 20 | |
| IP OPTIMUM LIMITED | NPE | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Telxon Corporation | operating co | 1 | 9 | 0 | 16 | |
| INTELLECTUAL VENTURES HOLDING 81 LLC | NPE | 1 | 9 | 0 | 8 | |
| SONIC IP, INC. | shell LLC | 1 | 9 | 0 | 3 | |
| Orphan Medical, LLC | operating co | 1 | 11 | 0 | 10 | |
| NXP USA, INC. | operating co | 1 | 11 | 0 | 5 | |
| Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | operating co | 1 | 12 | 0 | 6 |