Patent 10084840

Assignment history

Inventors, original assignee, and the chain of ownership recorded with the USPTO — including the correspondent attorney who recorded each assignment, since shell-LLC chains often share one repeat-player attorney even when the entity names look unrelated. Surfaces NPE / patent-troll patterns: shell-entity transfers, known asserters in the chain, repeat correspondent fingerprints, pre-litigation assignments, and bankruptcy fire-sales.

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Ownership chain (1)

Asserters network →

Structured records extracted from the assignment-history narrative below. Each entity links to its full ownership-network profile.

  1. 2017-03-22 · reel 039402/0593 · Assignment of Assignors Interest

    FERNANDO, Barry; HAIG, THEODORE V.; HIRSCHFELD, David; PHELPS, MARK C.ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.

    Correspondent: BARRY C. FERNANDO · BARRY C. FERNANDO

    internal reorg

Assignment history

Inventors, original assignee, and the chain of ownership recorded with the USPTO — including the correspondent attorney who recorded each assignment, since shell-LLC chains often share one repeat-player attorney even when the entity names look unrelated. Surfaces NPE / patent-troll patterns: shell-entity transfers, known asserters in the chain, repeat correspondent fingerprints, pre-litigation assignments, and bankruptcy fire-sales.

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Inventors

  • David Hirschfeld (ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY LLC)
  • Barry Fernando (ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY LLC)
  • Mark C. Phelps (ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY LLC)
  • Theodore V. Haig (ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY LLC)

Original assignee

ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY LLC. The patent text does not provide information on whether ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY LLC ships a product embodying the claims, nor does it explicitly state their primary line of business beyond the patent's subject matter. The current status, according to Google Patents, is "Active".

Assignment timeline

  • 2017-03-22 (executed) / recorded 2017-03-22 — Reel 039402/0593
    • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
    • Assignor: FERNANDO, Barry; HAIG, THEODORE V.; HIRSCHFELD, David; PHELPS, MARK C.
    • Assignee: ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.
    • Correspondent: BARRY C. FERNANDO, BARRY C. FERNANDO, 269 S. BEVERLY DRIVE, #358, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA 90212
    • Context: Internal reorg

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10084840
    2013 : Priority date
    2016 : Application filed
    2017 : Assigned to ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY LLC
    2018 : Issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — unclear. The original assignee is "ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY LLC" and the assignment shows a transfer of inventor interests to "ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.", which appears to be the same entity or a slight variation. There is no clear transfer to a separate licensing-only shell entity indicated in the provided assignment records.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. The assignees in the recorded chain do not match commonly known NPEs based on the provided information.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment is recorded, so a pattern of recurrence cannot be established. The correspondent is BARRY C. FERNANDO, BARRY C. FERNANDO, 269 S. BEVERLY DRIVE, #358, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA 90212.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. The patent was issued on 2018-09-25. The assignment occurred on 2017-03-22, prior to issuance. While the Google Patents "Family has litigation" section shows multiple US cases filed in the California Northern District Court starting in 2023, there isn't enough information to definitively link the 2017 assignment as "pre-litigation" in the context of these later suits.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. No indication of bankruptcy proceedings for the assignor.
  7. Privateering — not present. No evidence in the provided information to suggest privateering.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The current assignee is not a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. Only one assignment is recorded, which appears to be an internal re-organization or formal assignment of inventor interests to the assignee named on the issued patent. This single record does not provide sufficient information to establish any NPE or troll-pattern signals with confidence.

Verification: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/

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