Patent 11184652

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. 2020-08-25 · reel 054944/0831 · Assignment

    GOGOI, AMARENDRA N.; GUPTA, SANJAY KUMAR; SWAMI, RAVIKANTOPENTV, INC.

    Correspondent: · KENYON & KENYON

    Transfer of inventor's interest to the original 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

Original assignee

The original assignee, OpenTV Inc., is a company known for providing software and services for interactive television and digital video. At the time of filing, they were an operating company in the digital TV technology space. Their current status is still active as an operating entity.

Assignment timeline

  • 2020-08-25 (executed) / recorded 2020-08-25 — Reel 054944/0831
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: GOGOI, AMARENDRA N.; GUPTA, SANJAY KUMAR; SWAMI, RAVIKANT
    • Assignee: OPENTV, INC.
    • Correspondent: KENYON & KENYON LLP
    • Context: Transfer of inventor's interest to the original assignee.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11184652
    2018 : Filed by OpenTV Inc
    2020 : Inventors assigned to OpenTV Inc
    2021 : Issued to OpenTV Inc

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The patent remains with the original operating company, OpenTV Inc.

  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. OpenTV Inc. is not identified as a known NPE.

  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment is recorded, handled by Kenyon & Kenyon LLP.

  4. Cascading transfers — not present. There is only one recorded assignment, and it is from the inventors to the original assignee.

  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. The sole assignment is from the inventors to OpenTV Inc. prior to patent issuance, and no litigation involving this patent has been identified.

  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. No indication of OpenTV Inc. undergoing bankruptcy proceedings or a fire-sale of its patent assets.

  7. Privateering — not present. There is no evidence of OpenTV Inc. transferring this patent to an NPE for assertion on its behalf.

  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent is currently held by OpenTV Inc., which is not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion. The patent is currently assigned to OpenTV Inc., the original assignee and an operating company in the digital television technology sector. The only recorded assignment is from the inventors to OpenTV Inc. on 2020-08-25 (Reel 054944/0831), which is a standard practice for employees. This indicates that the patent is likely being held for strategic or defensive purposes by an operating company.

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