Assignment history

Inventors

• Kemal Ugur: Nokia Technologies Oy (at time of filing).
• Jani Lainema: Nokia Technologies Oy (at time of filing).
• Antti Hallapuro: Nokia Technologies Oy (at time of filing).

All inventors were employed by Nokia Technologies Oy, the original assignee, at the time of filing. There are no immediate patterns indicating an imminent departure or portfolio fire-sale from the provided information.

Original assignee

The entity named on the issued patent is Nokia Technologies Oy.

Nokia Technologies Oy is a technology and licensing subsidiary of Nokia Corporation, focusing on patent licensing, brand licensing, and the development of new technologies, including those related to video coding standards. Nokia, as an overarching entity, ships a wide range of products embodying video coding claims, such as smartphones, network infrastructure, and other communication devices. Its primary line of business is telecommunications and technology. Nokia Technologies Oy is an operating entity.

Assignment timeline

• 2021-05-24 (executed) / recorded 2021-05-25 — Reel 056801/0047
  • Conveyance: Assignment
  • Assignor: Ugur, Kemal; Lainema, Jani; Hallapuro, Antti
  • Assignee: Nokia Corporation
  • Correspondent: Blank Rome LLP (Attn: Patent Group), One Logan Square, 130 N. 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-6998. This correspondent recurs in this chain.
  • Context: Internal transfer of inventorship rights to the parent corporation.
• 2021-05-24 (executed) / recorded 2021-05-25 — Reel 056801/0050
  • Conveyance: Assignment
  • Assignor: Nokia Corporation
  • Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
  • Correspondent: Blank Rome LLP (Attn: Patent Group), One Logan Square, 130 N. 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-6998. This correspondent recurs in this chain.
  • Context: Internal transfer from parent corporation to its technology and licensing subsidiary, Nokia Technologies Oy.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11805267
    2011 : Priority date Jan 7
    2021 : Inventors assigned to Nokia Corp
         : Nokia Corp assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy
    2023 : Patent issued
    2024 : ITC infringement suit filed

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The transfers are between the inventors and Nokia Corporation, and then to Nokia Technologies Oy, all within the known Nokia corporate structure. Nokia Technologies Oy is an operating and licensing entity, not a shell for assertion only.
2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Nokia Technologies Oy is not recognized as a patent assertion entity (PAE) or non-practicing entity (NPE) in the conventional sense but rather as an operating company that actively licenses its extensive patent portfolio and enforces it when necessary.
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — present. Blank Rome LLP (Attn: Patent Group) is listed as the correspondent for both recorded assignments (Reel 056801/0047 and 056801/0050).
4. Cascading transfers — not present. There are two transfers recorded on the same day, suggesting an internal, contemporaneous restructuring or clarification of ownership rather than a rapid, successive transfer through multiple entities.
5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. The assignments occurred on 2021-05-24. The ITC infringement suit, Investigation No. 337-TA-1380, had its initial determination in December 2024, indicating the suit was filed well after the assignments.
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. The assignors and assignees involved (inventors, Nokia Corporation, Nokia Technologies Oy) were not reported to be in bankruptcy at the time of these assignments.
7. Privateering — not present. The patent is held and asserted by Nokia Technologies Oy, which is a part of Nokia, an operating company. While Nokia does license its patents, the assertion appears to be direct by the operating entity or its licensing arm, not via a third-party NPE.
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain ends with Nokia Technologies Oy, an asserting entity, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion

The patent is currently owned by Nokia Technologies Oy, the licensing arm of the operating company Nokia Corporation, following internal transfers from the inventors to Nokia Corporation and then to Nokia Technologies Oy (Reel 056801/0047 and 056801/0050). The ITC litigation involving Nokia as the plaintiff against Amazon confirms that Nokia Technologies Oy is actively asserting this patent as an operating company protecting its intellectual property.

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