Patent 11076735

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)

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

  1. 2020-09-08 · recorded 2020-09-10 · reel 202009/007421 · Assignment of Assignors Interest

    Jacob Resch; Jacob S. BolesBissell Inc.

    Correspondent: Michael G. Johnston

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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

  • Jacob Resch: Based on the assignment record, an inventor employed by Bissell Inc. at the time of invention.
  • Jacob S. Boles: Based on the assignment record, an inventor employed by Bissell Inc. at the time of invention.

There are no unusual patterns noted, such as the inventors departing the company. The assignment to the employer is a standard pre-filing procedure.

Original assignee

The original assignee is Bissell Inc., a privately-owned American vacuum cleaner and floor care product manufacturing corporation headquartered in Walker, Michigan. Bissell is a well-known operating company that has been in business since 1876. It actively manufactures and sells a wide range of surface cleaning products, including multi-surface wet/dry vacuum cleaners that appear to embody the claims of the patent, such as their "CrossWave" product line. The company is currently operating.

Assignment timeline

A search of the USPTO Patent Assignment Search database reveals only one recorded assignment for this patent.

  • 2020-09-08 (executed) / recorded 2020-09-10 — Reel 202009/007421
    • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
    • Assignor: Jacob Resch; Jacob S. Boles
    • Assignee: Bissell Inc.
    • Correspondent: Michael G. Johnston, Esq., Bissell Inc., 2345 Walker Avenue, N.W., Grand Rapids, MI 49544
    • Context: This is a standard pre-filing assignment of invention rights from the employees (inventors) to their employer.

No post-issuance assignments have been recorded. Bissell Inc. has remained the owner of the patent since its issuance.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11076735
    2019 : Priority Date
    2020 : Filed by Bissell Inc
         : Inventors assign to Bissell
    2021 : Issued to Bissell Inc
    2022 : Bissell files suit vs Tineco

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer: Not present. The patent has remained with the original assignee, Bissell Inc., an active operating company, since issuance.
  2. Known asserter in the chain: Not present. The only assignee is Bissell Inc., an operating company.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain: Not present. There has only been one assignment recorded.
  4. Cascading transfers: Not present.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer: Not present. The patent was not transferred prior to the litigation filed by Bissell Inc. in 2022.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale: Not present.
  7. Privateering: Not present. Bissell Inc. is asserting the patent directly on its own behalf.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE): Not present.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion

This patent is owned by its original assignee, Bissell Inc., a major manufacturer of floor-care products. The recorded litigation shows Bissell asserting the patent directly against a market competitor, Tineco, which also sells products in the same category. All evidence indicates that this is a case of a manufacturing company enforcing its intellectual property against a direct competitor, which is characteristic of an operating-company assertion, not NPE activity.

A direct link to the USPTO assignment records for this patent can be found at: https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/search/result?patentNum=11076735

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