Assignment history

Inventors

• Steven H. Rempell (EXPRESS MOBILE Inc.)
• David Chrobak (EXPRESS MOBILE Inc.)
• Ken Brown (EXPRESS MOBILE Inc.)

All inventors were employed by the original assignee, EXPRESS MOBILE Inc., at the time of filing. There is no immediate indication of all inventors departing the original assignee within 12 months of filing.

Original assignee

The original assignee on the issued patent US9063755 is EXPRESS MOBILE Inc.

Based on the patent text, EXPRESS MOBILE Inc. appears to have developed the "CDER™ publishing platform" mentioned as an example of the authoring tool. The primary line of business for EXPRESS MOBILE Inc. was likely related to providing systems and methods for presenting information on mobile devices, including an authoring platform for creating mobile applications.

Regarding its current status, the Google Patents legal status indicates the patent is "Active" and expires in 2029. However, further investigation beyond the patent document itself would be needed to definitively determine EXPRESS MOBILE Inc.'s current operating status, whether it was acquired, dissolved, or in bankruptcy.

Assignment timeline

I could not find any assignment records for US patent 9063755 on the USPTO Assignment Center. The search results returned a single assignment for application number 61321734, which is not US9063755. This indicates that, according to the USPTO's public assignment database, the patent may still be held by the original assignee, EXPRESS MOBILE Inc.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 9063755
    2009 : Application filed by EXPRESS MOBILE Inc
    2015 : Patent granted to EXPRESS MOBILE Inc

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. There are no recorded assignments of US9063755 in the USPTO Assignment Center, so no shell-entity transfer is observed.
2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. As no assignments are recorded for US9063755, there is no known asserter in the chain. However, search results indicate that Express Mobile, Inc. has engaged in patent monetization and litigation, including against large tech companies (e.g., Atlassian, DropBox, eBay, Expedia, FaceBook, Google, HubSpot, Microsoft, Squarespace, GoDaddy, Shopify, Web.com, Wix). One source explicitly refers to Express Mobile, Inc. as a "patent assertion entity".
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. No assignment records for US9063755 were found, so no correspondent patterns can be identified.
4. Cascading transfers — not present. No assignment records for US9063755 were found.
5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. No assignment records for US9063755 were found. However, Express Mobile, Inc. has initiated numerous infringement lawsuits involving this and related patents.
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication in the provided information that EXPRESS MOBILE Inc. has undergone a bankruptcy fire-sale.
7. Privateering — unclear. While EXPRESS MOBILE Inc. is actively asserting its patents against various companies, there is no explicit information in the provided context to confirm if these assertions are on behalf of another operating company (privateering). EXPRESS MOBILE Inc. itself states it has been licensing its patent portfolio since 2012.
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. There are no assignments to known defensive aggregators.

Verdict

NPE — high confidence

The high confidence NPE verdict is driven by the consistent and explicit characterization of EXPRESS MOBILE Inc. as a "patent assertion entity" and its extensive history of filing numerous patent infringement lawsuits against major technology companies (e.g., Facebook, Google, Shopify, eBay, Microsoft, Wix) involving US9063755 and related patents. This pattern of monetization through litigation, rather than product sales, strongly indicates an NPE model, even without recorded assignments to a different shell entity.

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