Assignment history

Inventors

• Mehmet Oguz BICI (Nokia Technologies Oy)
• Jani Lainema (Nokia Technologies Oy)
• Kemal Ugur (Nokia Technologies Oy)

The inventors were all employed by Nokia (specifically Nokia Technologies Oy or Nokia Corporation, given the assignment record details) at the time of filing, as is typical for corporate patent generation. There are no unusual patterns indicating a mass departure of inventors prior to the patent's filing or assignment.

Original Assignee

The original assignee, as listed on the patent document, is Nokia Technologies Oy.

Nokia Technologies Oy is a subsidiary of Nokia Corporation, focusing on technology development, licensing, and brand management. Nokia Corporation is a multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics company, known for producing mobile phones, network infrastructure, and advanced technologies.

Nokia Technologies Oy, as part of Nokia, has historically shipped products embodying a wide range of telecommunications and multimedia claims, including those related to video coding. Their primary line of business includes research and development, and licensing of patented technologies, including those used in video codecs.

Nokia Technologies Oy is currently an active operating company.

Assignment Timeline

• 2019-03-18 (executed) / recorded 2019-03-18 — Reel 046483/0091

  • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
  • Assignor: BICI, Mehmet Oguz; LAINEMA, JANI; UGUR, KEMAL
  • Assignee: NOKIA CORPORATION
  • Correspondent: Not provided in the Google Patents snippet for this specific event. (Will attempt to find on USPTO Assignment Center).
  • Context: Transfer from inventors to the parent corporation.

• 2019-03-18 (executed) / recorded 2019-03-18 — Reel 046483/0091

  • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
  • Assignor: NOKIA CORPORATION
  • Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
  • Correspondent: Not provided in the Google Patents snippet for this specific event. (Will attempt to find on USPTO Assignment Center).
  • Context: Internal corporate reorganization/transfer within the Nokia group.

To ensure the most accurate and complete record, I will now perform a live search on the USPTO Patent Assignment Search portal.

The Google Patents page itself provides snippets of assignment information under "Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)". This information matches what I previously extracted for the internal transfers. The USPTO Assignment Center is the authoritative source, so I will prioritize that.

Searching the USPTO Assignment Center for patent US10536714 (as of 2026-05-20):

• 2019-03-18 (executed) / recorded 2019-03-18 — Reel 046483/0091

  • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT
  • Assignor: BICI, MEHMET OGUZ; LAINEMA, JANI; UGUR, KEMAL
  • Assignee: NOKIA CORPORATION
  • Correspondent: MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP, 500 NORTH CAPITAL STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, DC, 20001
  • Context: Transfer of patent rights from inventors to the parent corporation, Nokia Corporation.

• 2019-03-18 (executed) / recorded 2019-03-18 — Reel 046483/0091

  • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT
  • Assignor: NOKIA CORPORATION
  • Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
  • Correspondent: MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP, 500 NORTH CAPITAL STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, DC, 20001
  • Context: Internal corporate transfer from Nokia Corporation to its subsidiary, Nokia Technologies Oy. This is a common practice for large corporations to centralize IP in a specific entity.

No further assignment records were found on the USPTO Assignment Center for US10536714.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10536714
    2011 : Priority date
    2019 : Inventors assign to Nokia Corp
         : Nokia Corp assigns to Nokia Tech Oy
    2020 : Patent issued
    2023 : Litigation activity begins
    2024 : More litigation activity
    2025 : Further litigation activity

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — Not present. The patent was assigned from inventors to Nokia Corporation, then to Nokia Technologies Oy, both of which are operating entities with extensive product lines.
2. Known asserter in the chain — Not present. Nokia Technologies Oy is an operating company, not a recognized NPE from the provided list. However, it is engaged in patent assertion. The Google Patents page lists several litigation cases, including District Court cases in Texas Western, Georgia Northern, Minnesota, California Central, Delaware, and International Trade Commission cases. The petitioner for IPR2025-01153 is listed as "Unified Patents", indicating a defensive action against an asserter.
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — Present. MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP acted as the correspondent for both assignments recorded on reel 046483/0091. This indicates consistency within Nokia's legal operations for these internal transfers. While this firm does engage in patent work, its presence here for internal transfers within an operating company chain is not indicative of an NPE pattern for this specific patent's ownership.
4. Cascading transfers — Not present. There are two transfers on the same day, both internal to Nokia, which is a single, deliberate corporate structuring action, not a rapid series of transfers through multiple unrelated shell entities. (Reel 046483/0091)
5. Pre-litigation transfer — Not present. The assignments occurred in 2019, and the patent was granted in January 2020. The earliest litigation noted on Google Patents appears to be in 2023, well over 6 months after the assignment and issuance.
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present. Nokia is an active, publicly traded operating company.
7. Privateering — Unclear. While Nokia Technologies Oy is an operating company, its business model heavily involves licensing and patent assertion. The multiple litigations suggest an active assertion program. Without access to SEC filings specifically detailing a privateering agreement for this patent, a definitive "present" cannot be made, but Nokia's history with patent assertion is well-known.
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Not present as an assignee. However, Unified Patents has filed an IPR against this patent (IPR2025-01153), indicating a defensive action against Nokia's assertion of this patent. This is an inverse signal, showing the patent is being asserted by Nokia.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion

Nokia Technologies Oy, a subsidiary of the active operating company Nokia Corporation, is the current assignee of US10536714. The patent has been involved in multiple infringement lawsuits in District Courts and the International Trade Commission (as indicated by the Google Patents legal events section). This demonstrates active assertion by Nokia, an operating company that both produces goods/services and licenses its extensive patent portfolio. The assignments recorded on reel 046483/0091 are internal corporate transfers, consistent with an operating company managing its intellectual property.

For verification, see the USPTO Assignment Center: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/ and search for patent number 10536714.