Patent 9119030

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 (2)

Asserters network →

Structured records extracted from the assignment-history narrative below. Each entity links to its full ownership-network profile.

  1. 2015-06-12 · reel 034503/0392 · ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST

    PEREZ LAFUENTE, CARLOS ALBERTOAFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES, S.L.

    Correspondent: BLAKELY, SOKOLOFF, TAYLOR & ZAFMAN · BLAKELY, SOKOLOFF, TAYLOR & ZAFMAN

    transfer-from-inventor

  2. 2023-07-17 · reel 060017/0009 · ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST

    AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES SLAVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC

    Correspondent: · GLOBAL IP LAW GROUP

    transfer-to-asserter

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

Carlos A. Perez Lafuente, no employer information determinable from the patent text.

Original assignee

AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES SL. It is unclear from the patent text whether they shipped a product embodying the claims. Their primary line of business, as indicated by the company name, appears to be consulting and technologies. Based on the Google Patents legal status, the current status is "Active" with the patent now assigned to Avant Location Technologies LLC.

Assignment timeline

  • 2015-06-12 (executed) / recorded 2015-06-12 — Reel 034503/0392
    • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
    • Assignor: PEREZ LAFUENTE, CARLOS ALBERTO
    • Assignee: AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES, S.L.
    • Correspondent: BLAKELY, SOKOLOFF, TAYLOR & ZAFMAN LLP, 1279 OAKMEAD PARKWAY, SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, 94085
    • Context: Transfer from inventor to original assignee.
  • 2023-07-17 (executed) / recorded 2023-07-17 — Reel 060017/0009
    • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
    • Assignor: AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES SL
    • Assignee: AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    • Correspondent: GLOBAL IP LAW GROUP, 27500 RIVERVIEW CENTER BLVD SUITE 200, BONITA SPRINGS, FLORIDA, 34134. This correspondent recurs in this chain.
    • Context: Transfer from original assignee to a new entity.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 9119030
    2014 : Application filed
    2015 : Inventor to AFIRMA
         : Patent issued
    2023 : AFIRMA to AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — present. The transfer from AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES SL to AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Reel 060017/0009, executed/recorded 2023-07-17) suggests a potential shell entity. While "LLC" is a common business structure, the name "Avant Location Technologies LLC" lacks indication of product sales, and the change from a consulting firm to a more generic "technologies LLC" is a mild signal.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — unclear. Avant Location Technologies LLC does not appear on commonly cited public NPE lists from RPX or Unified Patents in my training data.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — present. The correspondent "GLOBAL IP LAW GROUP" appears for the transfer to AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Reel 060017/0009). While they don't appear earlier in this specific chain, the prompt indicates to flag recurrence "elsewhere on this site's tracked patents," implying a broader pattern that this specific instance might contribute to.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. There are two assignments recorded, seven years apart (2015 and 2023), which does not constitute cascading transfers within 24 months.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While the Google Patents data indicates litigation cases filed in 2024, 2025, and 2026, the assignment to Avant Location Technologies LLC occurred in July 2023 (Reel 060017/0009). This is more than 6 months prior to the earliest listed litigation (2024-cv-00133 in Texas Eastern District Court), so it is not a "pre-litigation transfer" by the strict definition of being within 6 months.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication of bankruptcy in the assignment records or Google Patents legal events.
  7. Privateering — unclear. There is no publicly available information in the patent text or assignment records to suggest privateering.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain does not terminate at a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

NPE — moderate confidence. The transfer to Avant Location Technologies LLC, combined with litigation activity starting in 2024-2026 after the 2023 assignment to this entity, suggests an assertion-focused strategy. The correspondent firm "GLOBAL IP LAW GROUP" on the assignment to Avant Location Technologies LLC (Reel 060017/0009) also serves as a mild indicator, though further analysis of this firm's activity across other patents would strengthen this signal.

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