Assignment history

Inventors

• Demetrios G. Vellis (Employer: Exponential Interactive, Inc.)
• Douglas J. B. Green (Employer: Exponential Interactive, Inc.)
• Todd M. Brooks (Employer: Exponential Interactive, Inc.)

Original assignee

The original assignee on record for US patent RE48479 is Exponential Interactive, Inc. The patent abstract describes a computer-implemented method for providing dynamic advertising content. Exponential Interactive, Inc. was an advertising technology company, indicating they likely shipped products embodying the claims. The current status of Exponential Interactive, Inc. is not immediately clear from public patent records, but the assignment timeline will shed more light on the patent's ownership post-issuance.

Assignment timeline

No assignment records were found for US patent RE48479 on the USPTO Assignment Center. This indicates that the original assignee, Exponential Interactive, Inc., likely still holds ownership of the patent, or that any transfers have not been recorded with the USPTO. The USPTO's assignment database contains recorded information from August 1980 to the present.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US RE48479
    2014 : Reissue application filed
    2022 : Patent RE48479 issued to Exponential Interactive

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — not present (No recorded assignments, so no transfer to a shell entity is evident).
2. Known asserter in the chain — not present (No recorded assignments, and therefore no known asserters in the chain).
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present (No recorded assignments, so no correspondent chain to analyze).
4. Cascading transfers — not present (No recorded assignments).
5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear (No recorded assignments; litigation status for this specific patent would need to be cross-referenced with additional databases like Unified Patents or RPX, which is beyond the scope of a direct assignment search).
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — unclear (No recorded assignments indicating a bankruptcy sale. The status of the original assignee, Exponential Interactive, Inc., would require further investigation beyond patent assignment records).
7. Privateering — unclear (No recorded assignments to suggest privateering activity).
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present (No recorded assignments to a defensive aggregator).

Verdict

Insufficient data (No assignments are recorded for US Patent RE48479 on the USPTO Assignment Center, meaning no transfers of ownership have been made publicly available through this system. Therefore, a confident determination of NPE activity cannot be made based solely on the provided assignment records). You can verify this by searching for RE48479 at the USPTO Assignment Center.