Patent 12231703

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. 2024-01-11 · reel 059941/0816 · Assignment

    GOGOI, AMARENDRA N., GUPT, SANJAY KUMAR, SWAMI, RavikantOPENTV, INC.

    Correspondent: · BLANK ROME

    original assignment from the inventors to the 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

  • Amarendra N. Gogoi (Employer: OpenTV Inc. at time of priority filing 2017-09-08)
  • Sanjay Kumar Gupta (Employer: OpenTV Inc. at time of priority filing 2017-09-08)
  • Ravikant Swami (Employer: OpenTV Inc. at time of priority filing 2017-09-08)

Original assignee

OpenTV Inc. is the original assignee named on the issued patent. OpenTV Inc. is primarily known for providing software and technology for interactive television and digital video broadcasting. They offer products and solutions for content discovery, user interfaces, and video delivery. The current status of OpenTV Inc. is operating, as indicated by their active involvement in litigation as a plaintiff.

Assignment timeline

  • 2024-01-11 (executed) / recorded 2024-01-11 — Reel 059941/0816
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: GOGOI, AMARENDRA N., GUPT, SANJAY KUMAR, SWAMI, Ravikant
    • Assignee: OPENTV, INC.
    • Correspondent: BLANK ROME LLP, 1825 EYE STREET, NW, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 20006-5403.
    • Context: This is the original assignment from the inventors to the assignee.

Timeline diagram

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    title Ownership of US 12231703
    2017 : Priority date
    2023 : Application filed
    2024 : Assigned to OpenTV Inc
    2025 : Issued

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. No transfers to shell entities are recorded.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. OpenTV, Inc. is an operating company and is acting as the plaintiff in the current litigation. No known NPEs are identified as assignees in the provided records.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment is recorded, and thus no recurrence of correspondents can be observed in this specific chain for this patent.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment from the inventors to the operating company is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. The assignment from the inventors to OpenTV Inc. was recorded on 2024-01-11 (Reel 059941/0816). The litigation with Pinterest Inc. was filed on 2025-11-18. This transfer occurred well over 6 months before the litigation commenced.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication that OpenTV Inc. has filed for bankruptcy.
  7. Privateering — unclear. While OpenTV Inc. is an operating company and is asserting against Pinterest, the full details of any potential privateering agreements are not publicly available in the assignment records or the provided patent text.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent is currently owned by OpenTV Inc., which is asserting it.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion. The patent was assigned from the individual inventors to OpenTV Inc., an operating company. OpenTV Inc. is the plaintiff in the active litigation against Pinterest, Inc., which suggests the patent is being asserted by an operating company against a competitor.

https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/patents/[12231703](/patent/12231703)

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