Patent 10659682

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. 2018-05-30 · reel 046939/0425 · Assignment

    SIVAN, IshaySNAPAID LTD.

    Correspondent: WILLIAM H. DICTER · WOLF, GREENFIELD & SACKS

    original assignment from inventor to company

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

Ishay Sivan (Snapaid Ltd.)

Original assignee

Snapaid Ltd. is the original assignee named on the issued patent. It is unclear from the patent text or other readily available information whether Snapaid Ltd. shipped a product embodying the claims or what its primary line of business is. The current status of Snapaid Ltd. is "Active" according to Google Patents.

Assignment timeline

2018-05-30 (executed) / recorded 2018-05-30 — Reel 046939/0425

  • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
  • Assignor: SIVAN, Ishay
  • Assignee: SNAPAID LTD.
  • Correspondent: WILLIAM H. DICTER, WOLF, GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C., 600 ATLANTIC AVENUE, BOSTON MA 02210
  • Context: Original assignment from inventor to company.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10659682
    2018 : Assigned to Snapaid Ltd.
    2020 : Issued
    2025 : PTAB case IPR2025-01522 filed
         : US case filed in Texas Eastern District Court

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — unclear. The initial assignment is from the inventor to Snapaid Ltd. without further transfers to entities with names suggesting a shell. It is not clear whether Snapaid Ltd. itself operates as a shell entity.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. No known asserters like Acacia Research Corp or Intellectual Ventures appear in the assignment records. However, Google Patents notes "Family has litigation" with a PTAB case IPR2025-01522 filed and a US case filed in Texas Eastern District Court (2:25-cv-00378), but the petitioner/plaintiff is not identified in the provided text.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. There is only one recorded assignment, so no recurrence can be observed. The correspondent is WILLIAM H. DICTER, WOLF, GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. The patent was assigned to Snapaid Ltd. in 2018. Litigation activity is noted in 2025. Without specific dates for the first infringement suit or more detailed assignment records, it's unclear if any transfers occurred within 6 months prior to litigation.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. No indication of bankruptcy proceedings for Snapaid Ltd.
  7. Privateering — unclear. There's no information available in the patent text or assignment records to suggest privateering.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain does not end at a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data
The USPTO Assignment Center only shows the initial assignment from the inventor to Snapaid Ltd. There are no further recorded assignments to evaluate for NPE patterns. While Google Patents indicates ongoing litigation, the parties involved in the assertion are not identified in the provided records, making it impossible to determine if the patent is being asserted by an NPE.

For verification, you can search the USPTO Patent Assignment Search at https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/ by patent number US10659682.

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