Patent 9202191

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.

2012-08-07 · reel 028913/0582 · Assignment of Assignors Interest
BOWEN, MARK BARON; HAYS, MICHAEL CONSUMERON, LLC
Original assignment from inventors

Assignment history

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Inventors

Mark Baron Bowen
Michael Hays

Original assignee

The original assignee, CONSUMERON LLC, appears to be a company focused on systems and methods for remote acquisition and delivery of goods. It is unclear if they shipped a product embodying the claims, and their current status (operating, acquired, dissolved, in bankruptcy) is not readily determinable from the provided information.

Assignment timeline

2012-08-07 (executed) / recorded 2012-08-07 — Reel 028913/0582
- Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
- Assignor: BOWEN, MARK BARON; HAYS, MICHAEL
- Assignee: CONSUMERON, LLC
- Correspondent: NOT AVAILABLE. This entry is from Google Patents and does not specify a correspondent.
- Context: Original assignment from inventors to the applicant/assignee.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 9202191
    2009 : Priority Date
    2012 : Application Filed
         : Assigned to CONSUMERON, LLC
    2015 : Issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

Shell-entity transfer — unclear. While "CONSUMERON, LLC" has the LLC suffix, there is no information about whether it's a licensing-only entity, if it has products in commerce, or its address (beyond what's typically listed for a registered agent). No transfer from an operating company to a shell is recorded.
Known asserter in the chain — not present. None of the named assignees (CONSUMERON, LLC) are listed as known patent assertion entities (PAEs) such as Acacia Research Corp, Marathon Patent Group, Intellectual Ventures, IPNav, Wi-LAN, Mosaid / Conversant, Vringo, Pendrell, Innovatio IP Ventures, MPHJ Technology, Lumen View Technology, Round Rock Research, or Erich Spangenberg entities.
Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment record is explicitly detailed, and it does not provide correspondent information.
Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment is recorded, from the inventors to the initial assignee.
Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. No litigation data is provided in the patent text or search results to compare with the assignment date.
Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication that the original assignee has filed for bankruptcy.
Privateering — not present. There is no evidence of an operating company transferring patents to an NPE for assertion against competitors.
Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent is not assigned to any known defensive aggregators such as RPX, Allied Security Trust (AST), LOT Network, Unified Patents, or Open Invention Network.

Verdict

Insufficient data
The USPTO assignment records, as well as the Google Patents legal events, only show the initial assignment from the inventors to CONSUMERON, LLC on 2012-08-07 (Reel 028913/0582). Without further assignment records or information about CONSUMERON, LLC's business practices and any litigation involving this patent, it is not possible to confidently determine an NPE pattern.

Verification link: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/

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