Patent assignments recently made public by the USPTO reveal a pair of notable transactions, one to a Texas entity that recently filed suit against Samsung in Europe and another to a Texas monetization firm already in possession of three other US “investments” (i.e., portfolios), only one of which it has litigated to date, against Acer, HP, Dell, and TCL. The first transfer raises the question of whether US litigation might be coming from the same patent holder, as well as whether other LLCs from Middle Earth might arrive on these shores, perhaps a Turgon LLC, or a Finrod Felagund LLC, while the second transfer, among other things, stretches everyone’s Artic vocabulary.
