Patent 8695486

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. 2010-09-27 · recorded 2010-12-13 · reel 025475/0433 · Assignment

    Bodum, JorgenPI-DESIGN AG

    internal reorg

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

  • Jørgen Bodum (Employer: Pi Design AG at the time of filing)

Original assignee

Pi Design AG. They are an operating company known for designing and manufacturing household articles, particularly coffee and tea makers (e.g., Bodum French presses). Their current status is operating.

Assignment timeline

  • 2010-09-27 (executed) / recorded 2010-12-13 — Reel 025475/0433
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: Bodum, Jorgen
    • Assignee: PI-DESIGN AG
    • Correspondent: Not specified in the provided text.
    • Context: Internal reorg (assignment from individual inventor to the company).

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 8695486
    2009 : Filed by Pi Design AG
    2010 : Assigned to PI-DESIGN AG
    2014 : Issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The initial assignment is from the inventor to an operating company, Pi-Design AG.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Pi-Design AG is an operating company, not a known NPE.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — unclear. The correspondent information for the 2010 assignment is not detailed enough in the provided text to determine recurrence or association with known NPEs.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment is recorded, from the inventor to the assignee.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While the patent has litigation associated with it, the assignment record does not indicate a transfer within 6 months of any identified litigation filing.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication of bankruptcy in the assignment record or other provided information.
  7. Privateering — not present. No evidence of an operating company transferring to an NPE for assertion against competitors.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The current assignee is an operating company, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. The only recorded assignment is from the inventor to the operating company, PI-DESIGN AG (reel 025475/0433, recorded 2010-12-13). There are no further recorded assignments that would provide signals for NPE activity.

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