Assignment history

Inventors

• Peter D. Karabinis (Employer: Telcom Ventures LLC, based on assignment record)
• Rajendra Singh (Employer: Telcom Ventures LLC, based on assignment record)

There are no unusual patterns indicating inventors departing the original assignee around the time of filing, as the inventors assigned the patent to Telcom Ventures LLC, which is also the original assignee.

Original assignee

Telcom Ventures LLC
Telcom Ventures LLC does not appear to ship products embodying the claims. Their primary line of business, inferred from the patent's nature and extensive litigation against major technology companies (Google, Apple, Samsung), is patent licensing and assertion. The entity is currently active, as evidenced by ongoing litigation.

Assignment timeline

• 2018-06-19 (executed) / recorded 2018-06-19 — Reel 045665/0130
  • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT
  • Assignor: SINGH, RAJENDRA; KARABINIS, PETER D.
  • Assignee: TELCOM VENTURES, LLC
  • Correspondent: OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. (Attn: IP Docketing), 1940 DUKE STREET, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314.
  • Context: Transfer of invention rights from individual inventors to the original assignee.

There are no further recorded assignments for US patent 10219199 in the USPTO Assignment Center beyond the initial assignment from the inventors to Telcom Ventures LLC.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10219199
    2017 : Application filed
    2018 : Assigned to Telcom Ventures LLC
    2019 : Patent issued
    2024 : Litigation filed
    2025 : IPRs filed

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — Present. The original assignee, Telcom Ventures LLC, appears to operate as a licensing-only entity. There is no public record of them shipping products, and their name "Ventures LLC" is common for such entities. They are engaged in extensive litigation against major technology companies, as noted in the prior analysis of PTAB cases by Google, Apple, and Samsung, consistent with a patent assertion entity.
2. Known asserter in the chain — Present. Telcom Ventures LLC is explicitly identified as being tracked by "Unified Patents Litigation Data" and "Unified Patents PTAB Data" in the provided information, which are resources used to identify high-frequency patent plaintiffs and NPEs. This indicates they are a known patent asserter.
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — Not present. The correspondent, OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P., appears only once in the assignment record for this specific patent (Reel 045665/0130).
4. Cascading transfers — Not present. There is only one recorded assignment for this patent.
5. Pre-litigation transfer — Not present. The assignment from the inventors to Telcom Ventures LLC occurred on 2018-06-19 (Reel 045665/0130), prior to the patent's issuance (2019-02-26) and well before the district court litigation which began in 2024.
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present. There is no indication of the original assignee undergoing bankruptcy proceedings.
7. Privateering — Unclear. While Telcom Ventures LLC is an asserting entity, there is no explicit information in the provided records to suggest they are asserting on behalf of an operating company.
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Not present. The patent is currently held by Telcom Ventures LLC and is involved in active litigation, not held by a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

NPE — high confidence

Telcom Ventures LLC exhibits multiple strong signals of being a Non-Practicing Entity (NPE). The entity itself appears to be a shell, lacking any clear product lines, and is actively engaging in patent assertion litigation against major technology companies such as Google, Apple, and Samsung, as detailed in the previous PTAB challenges and litigation summary. The fact that Telcom Ventures LLC is tracked by Unified Patents further solidifies its identification as a known asserter.

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