Patent 11011014

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. 2024-05-02 · recorded 2024-05-13 · reel 061803/0970 · ASSIGNMENT

    HAUSHALTER, TODDEVOLUTION MALTA LIMITED

    Correspondent: · MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY

    Inventor assignment of rights to the operating company assignee

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

Todd Haushalter. His employer at the time of filing, and currently, is Evolution Malta Ltd. There are no unusual patterns indicating a departure from the original assignee.

Original assignee

The original assignee is Evolution Malta Ltd.. Evolution Malta Ltd is a prominent operating company in the iGaming industry, specializing in the development and provision of B2B live casino solutions and online casino content. They ship products embodying the claims, such as internet-based wagering systems that replicate aspects of a real casino environment. Evolution Malta Ltd is currently operating.

Assignment timeline

  • 2024-04-24 (executed) / recorded 2024-05-02 — Reel 061794/0270

    • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT
    • Assignor: HAUSHALTER, TODD
    • Assignee: EVOLUTION MALTA LTD.
    • Correspondent: MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP, 1850 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006-1216.
    • Context: Inventor assignment of rights to the operating company assignee.

  • 2024-05-02 (executed) / recorded 2024-05-13 — Reel 061803/0970

    • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT
    • Assignor: HAUSHALTER, TODD
    • Assignee: EVOLUTION MALTA LTD.
    • Correspondent: MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP, 1850 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006-1216. This correspondent also appears on reel 061794/0270 for the same patent.
    • Context: Inventor assignment of rights to the operating company assignee.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11011014
    2020 : Filed by Evolution Malta Ltd
    2021 : Issued
    2024 : Inventor assigned to Evolution Malta Ltd
         : US litigation filed
    2025 : PTAB IPR filed by Unified Patents

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — Not present. The assignments on record are from the inventor, Todd Haushalter, to Evolution Malta Ltd, an operating company, not to a shell entity.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — Unclear. Evolution Malta Ltd is an operating company. However, the patent is currently involved in litigation in the Nevada District Court (case 2:24-cv-00993) and an Inter Partes Review (IPR2025-01072) was filed by Unified Patents. While Evolution Malta Ltd is not on the common NPE lists provided, their involvement in litigation and an IPR by an anti-NPE organization suggests an assertive strategy.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — Not present. McDermott Will & Emery LLP handled both inventor-to-assignee transfers (Reels 061794/0270 and 061803/0970). This represents a single set of transfers for the same entity, not a recurrence across different or chained entities indicative of NPE patterns.
  4. Cascading transfers — Not present. There are only two recorded assignments, both from the inventor to the operating company, not multiple consecutive transfers through chained LLCs.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — Not present. The assignments from the inventor to Evolution Malta Ltd were executed on 2024-04-24 (Reel 061794/0270) and 2024-05-02 (Reel 061803/0970), and recorded on 2024-05-02 and 2024-05-13, respectively. The US litigation (2:24-cv-00993) was filed on May 28, 2024. While these assignments occurred shortly before litigation, they represent a formalization of inventor-to-operating company ownership, not a transfer to a separate asserting entity.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present.
  7. Privateering — Unclear. Evolution Malta Ltd is an operating company. Without specific evidence from SEC filings or investigative reports, it is not possible to determine if they are asserting the patent on behalf of another entity.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Not present. The current assignee is Evolution Malta Ltd, an operating company, not a defensive aggregator. Unified Patents is challenging the patent through an IPR, indicating assertion, not defensive aggregation.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion
The available records show that the patent remains owned by Evolution Malta Ltd, an active operating company in the iGaming sector. The assignments reflect the inventor formally transferring rights to this operating company (Reel 061794/0270, Reel 061803/0970). While the patent is involved in active litigation and an IPR challenge by Unified Patents, there is no evidence of a shell entity transfer or other classic NPE patterns.

For verification, see the USPTO Patent Assignment Search: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/

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