Assignment history

Inventors

• Mark B. Barron (no employer stated in patent)
• Michael Hays (no employer stated in patent)

Original assignee

The original assignee is CONSUMERON LLC. The patent abstract describes a system and method for remote acquisition and delivery of goods, including an energy-efficient vehicle, real-time video device, GPS, communication device, and printer. It is unclear from the provided text whether CONSUMERON LLC shipped a product embodying the claims. CONSUMERON LLC's primary line of business, as inferred from the patent, appears to be related to remote shopping and delivery services. Its current status is "Active" according to Google Patents.

Assignment timeline

• 2010-12-15 (executed) / recorded 2010-12-15 — Reel 025880/0948
  • Conveyance: Assignment
  • Assignor: BOWEN, MARK BARON, HAYS, MICHAEL
  • Assignee: CONSUMERON, LLC
  • Correspondent: BARBARA A. WRATCHFORD, ESQ., 11218 STONERIDGE PL., ORLANDO, FL 32817. This correspondent appears for the first assignment of the patent.
  • Context: Transfer from individual inventors to the original assignee.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 8244594
    2009 : Priority date
    2010 : Filed by CONSUMERON LLC
         : Assigned from inventors to CONSUMERON LLC
    2012 : Issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The initial assignment is from the inventors to CONSUMERON LLC, which is the original assignee on the patent. There are no further recorded assignments to suggest a shell entity in the provided text or USPTO assignment records.
2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. CONSUMERON LLC is not identified as a known NPE in the provided search results for major NPE lists (e.g., Acacia Research, Marathon Patent Group, Intellectual Ventures, IPNav, Wi-LAN, Mosaid/Conversant, Vringo, Pendrell, Innovatio IP Ventures, MPHJ Technology, Lumen View Technology, Round Rock Research, Document Generation Corp, Erich Spangenberg entities).
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment is recorded, thus no recurrence of a correspondent can be observed in this chain.
4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment is recorded.
5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While there is litigation listed, the specific filing dates of the suits are not precisely dated in the provided text to allow for a comparison with potential assignment dates. The current assignment information predates the earliest listed litigation by many years.
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication that the original assignee, CONSUMERON LLC, has filed for bankruptcy.
7. Privateering — not present. There is no information to suggest an operating company transferred the patent to an NPE to assert on its behalf.
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent is currently assigned to CONSUMERON LLC, and there is no indication of transfer to a defensive aggregator like RPX, AST, LOT Network, Unified Patents, or Open Invention Network.

Verdict

Insufficient data. Only one assignment from the inventors to the original assignee, CONSUMERON LLC, is publicly recorded. This single record (Reel 025880/0948, executed and recorded on 2010-12-15) does not provide enough information or patterns to confidently categorize the patent as being asserted by an NPE or operating company, or as being held for defensive purposes.
To verify, you can search on the USPTO Patent Assignment Search page for US8244594.