Patent 11825139

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. 2021-11-09 · reel 059940/0416 · Assignment

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

    Correspondent: GREGORY J. GOLOB

    Transfer from inventors 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 is OpenTV Inc. OpenTV Inc. is a company that has historically provided software and services for interactive television and digital video. It is likely that they shipped products embodying the claims, given their business area in content presentation technologies. OpenTV Inc. is currently operating as a subsidiary of a larger entity, now known as Nagra, a Kudelski Group company.

Assignment timeline

  • 2021-11-09 (executed) / recorded 2021-11-09 — Reel 059940/0416
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: GOGOI, AMARENDRA N., GUPTA, SANJAY KUMAR, SWAMI, RAVIKANT
    • Assignee: OPENTV, INC.
    • Correspondent: GREGORY J. GOLOB, P.O. BOX 1930, BOULDER, COLORADO 80306
    • Context: Transfer from inventors to the original assignee.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11825139
    2021 : Assigned to OpenTV Inc from inventors
    2023 : Issued to OpenTV Inc
    2026 : IPR filed by Pinterest Inc

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The initial assignment is from the inventors to OpenTV Inc., which is an operating company. There is no evidence of a transfer to a shell entity.
  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, so no recurrence can be observed.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. There is only one recorded assignment.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. The only recorded assignment is from the inventors to the original assignee at the time of filing. There is no litigation information tied directly to this patent that would indicate a pre-litigation transfer.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. No indication of bankruptcy for OpenTV Inc. or any fire-sale of assets.
  7. Privateering — unclear. While OpenTV Inc. is an operating company, without further SEC filings or detailed corporate information, it's unclear if any subsequent assertion of this patent (should it occur) would be on behalf of a third party.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent is not currently assigned to any known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. There is only one recorded assignment, which is the initial transfer from the inventors to the operating company, OpenTV Inc. This single record does not provide enough information to identify any NPE or patent-troll patterns.

The USPTO Assignment Center search can be verified at https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/ by searching for patent number "11825139".

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