Patent 8050321

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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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

Miska Hannuksela, Tampere (FI).
Employer at time of filing: Nokia Corporation, Espoo (FI).

Original assignee

Nokia Corporation, Espoo (FI).
Nokia is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation. They are a technology leader across mobile, fixed, and cloud networks, offering solutions that enable productive, sustainable, and inclusive networks. Nokia's offerings include AI-powered networks, modern data centers, autonomous networks, and broadband access networks. Nokia has actively developed and shipped products embodying claims related to video coding, streaming, and telecommunications.

Current Status: Operating. Nokia Corporation is a public limited company listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki and New York Stock Exchange.

Assignment timeline

The USPTO Assignment Center (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/) search for patent 8050321 returned no recorded assignments. This indicates that the original assignee, Nokia Corporation, still owns the patent.

Timeline diagram

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    title Ownership of US 8050321
    2006 : Application filed by Nokia Inc
    2011 : Patent Issued to Nokia Corporation

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. There are no recorded assignments of this patent to any shell entities.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. There are no recorded assignments of this patent to any known NPEs.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. No assignment records exist for this patent.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. No assignment records exist for this patent.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. No assignment records exist for this patent.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. Nokia Corporation is an active, operating company.
  7. Privateering — not present. No assignment records exist for this patent.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. No assignment records indicate transfer to a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. There are no recorded assignments for US 8050321 in the USPTO Assignment Center, beyond the original assignment to Nokia Corporation at the time of issuance. This means there is no public record of any transfer of ownership that would indicate NPE activity or defensive aggregation. The patent remains assigned to Nokia Corporation, an operating company.
To verify, see the USPTO Assignment Center search for US8050321.

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