A Telling Move to Texas Leads This Week’s Assignment Report

Recorded patent assignments recently made public signal an accelerating move into patent monetization by the “legal opportunities team” of a New York-based investment management firm. They also reveal the seeming plan for one of the monetization firms to have just received pieces of Monterey Research, LLC’s portfolio of former Cypress Semiconductor patents, the divestiture of more patents from the same source to a plaintiff already litigating its earlier batch, and more.