Patent transfers recently made public by the USPTO include multiple assignments between NPEs, several of which have litigated previously received assets, but others of which are new and have yet to file suit. They also include a grant to the US Treasury Department of four assets, one of which was “litigated” through this past July, when Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright, on the court’s own motion, brought the campaign to an end.

Inventor-controlled Wepay Global Payments LLC has expanded the campaign that it launched in September 2021, suing Bank of America (1:22-cv-00105) and JPMorgan Chase (1:22-cv-00103), both in the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff asserts a single design patent, generally related to a particular user interface, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of mobile apps that feature certain graphical user interface (GUI) elements.