Patent 7788272

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. 2006-07-07 · recorded 2006-08-04 · reel 018055/0563 · Assignment

    RAY, ELTON TARIKXEROX CORPORATION

    Correspondent: E. O. PALMER, JR. · XEROX CORPORATION

    Original assignment from inventor to employer

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

  • Elton Tarik Ray (Xerox Corp.)

Original assignee

The original assignee is Xerox Corp. Xerox Corp. is a well-known operating company primarily engaged in digital printing and imaging solutions, including a wide range of products and services such as printers, multifunction devices, managed print services, and related software. It is an operating company.

Assignment timeline

  • 2006-07-07 (executed) / recorded 2006-08-04 — Reel 018055/0563
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: RAY, ELTON TARIK
    • Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    • Correspondent: E. O. PALMER, JR., XEROX CORPORATION, 200 FIRST ST. P.O. BOX 1600, STAMFORD, CT, UNITED STATES, 06904-1600
    • Context: Original assignment from inventor to employer.

There are no additional assignment records for US7788272 on the USPTO Assignment Center.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 7788272
    2006 : Assigned to Xerox Corp
    2010 : Issued
    2022 : Expired

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The only recorded assignment is from the inventor to the operating company, Xerox Corp.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Xerox Corp. is an operating company, not a known NPE.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment is recorded, and the correspondent is associated with Xerox Corp.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. The patent has expired, and no litigation was identified.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. Xerox Corp. remains an active operating company.
  7. Privateering — not present. No evidence of such an arrangement.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present.

Verdict

Insufficient data. The only recorded assignment is the initial one from the inventor to Xerox Corp. (Reel 018055/0563, executed 2006-07-07). There are no subsequent assignments to indicate any NPE activity or transfers to defensive aggregators.

USPTO Assignment Center search page for US7788272: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/#!/patent/7788272

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