This past September saw two single-asset assignments from Korea University Research and Business Foundation (KURBF) to apparent IP Edge LLC entities, each of which launched a litigation campaign at the end of November. Scanton Technologies, LLC sued Avalanche Technology (1:21-cv-01688) and Everspin Technologies (6:21-cv-01238) over the provision of spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) products, while Whirlwind Licensing LLC hit Infineon (Cypress Semiconductor) (6:21-cv-01236) over the inclusion of certain clock modulation features within the Cypress Traveo II for Body CYT4BF Series of automotive microcontrollers.

USPTO records made public over the past few weeks have revealed assignments to a wide spectrum of NPE assignees, including two newly formed Texas entities; several affiliates of a prolific patent plaintiff; two subsidiaries of a publicly traded patent assertion entity; and multiple Irish entities formed by a third-party backed monetization firm.

Just before Thanksgiving in the US, the July 2021 assignment of a portfolio of wireless charging patents from a prolific named inventor, via a California LLC, to top NPE plaintiff IP Edge LLC appeared in publicly available USPTO assignment records, as did the assignment of a couple of US patents from Korea University Research and Business Foundation (KURBF). The recipients, each an LLC associated with the Texas monetization firm, have yet to file suit or move assets to other IP Edge plaintiffs for assertion, at least according to such records, but the portfolios join three other batches of patents recently acquired by IP Edge, several of which have already appeared in litigation.