Assignments recently made public by the USPTO reflect, among other things, the apparent divestitures from a networking provider of roughly a quarter of its former US patent assets and from a smart projection company to a European monetization firm of what appears to be all of its US assets, as well as a double-bounce for the patent portfolio of a customer experience (CX) vendor exiting bankruptcy protection late last year and an ongoing flow of wireless communications patents to a Texas monetization firm.

Last September, Arlington Technologies, LLC, a Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff, filed its first litigation over a large portfolio of former Avaya patents received earlier in 2024, suing Comcast in a pair of Eastern District of Texas complaints. Those cases have ended, after a notice of settlement. Now, Arlington has filed against Deutsche Telekom (Sprint, T-Mobile) (2:25-cv-00279) in the same district. Targeted is the provision of “wireless access points” that are configured to support 802.11ax and Wi-Fi Multimedia, cellular services that support Voice over LTE (VoLTE), and cellular networks that support STIR/SHAKEN call verification.

As the USPTO continues to release assignment records, the announced acquisition by Texas monetization firm Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC of a “diverse, high quality patent portfolio” from Dolby Laboratories has taken further shape, with a notable asterisk. Those records also contain transfers to a new apparent Fortress Investment Group LLC entity and to a second Texas entity formed over the past couple of months by a figure formerly much more active in the patent monetization space.

Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC has announced the acquisition of a “diverse, high quality patent portfolio” from Dolby Laboratories. Per the release, the portfolio “encompasses over 2,500 patent assets that Dolby recently acquired as part of its acquisition of GE Licensing” and comprises the following “key technologies”: Display Technologies, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, Semiconductors and Electronics, Batteries, Wireless Power, Wireless Networking, and Healthcare.

Oak IP, LLC, a Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff, has filed its first litigation, suing Globalfoundries (1:25-cv-00142) over the provision of chips/products manufactured using its 14 nm and 12 nm FinFET fabrication processes and other chips/products manufactured using “the same or similar processes”. The Delaware complaint specifically identifies three accused products—the AMD Radeon RX 480 (allegedly manufactured using Globalfoundries’s 14 nm FinFET process) as well as the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF (allegedly manufactured using its 12 nm FinFET process)—that are allegedly “also integrated into additional processors”.

On January 1, 2025, Ofinno, LLC assigned a portfolio of more than 200 US patents to an entity tied to Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC. The transfer follows recent portfolio pickups for the Texas monetization firm from Acorn Semi, LLC and Vulcan Gaming LLC. Currently available USPTO records indicate that Ofinno, a research and development outfit, holds hundreds more active US patents, with plenty of applications in the pipeline.

Last week, RPX noted the December 2024 transfer of a portfolio of patent assets, broadly directed to semiconductor fabrication and/or circuit configuration, from Acorn Semi, LLC, a subsidiary of Acorn Technologies, to an entity tied to Texas monetization firm Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC. That transfer followed by one week an earlier pickup for Dominion, this one of a portfolio of gaming device patents.

As the calendar turned, several notable patent assignments appeared in publicly available USPTO assignment records, including a batch of semiconductor patents and a batch of networking assets separately moved to two well-established monetization firms and transfers from two individual inventors to entities—one formed in Texas; the other, in Delaware—that appear poised for assertion.

Redwood Technologies, LLC, a Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff, has filed a pair of Western District of Texas complaints against Broadcom (6:25-cv-00002, 6:25-cv-00003), targeting with 15 wireless communications patents a wide array of products that are compliant with various Wi-Fi standards, including 802.11n/ac/ax/be/ad/ay and/or Wi-Fi Multimedia. In both complaints, Redwood alleges that Broadcom has had notice of the asserted patents as early as communications sent in November 2021 that offered “reasonable and nondiscriminatory” license terms, detailing multiple alleged follow-ups. The new duo of cases drops as Redwood’s two suits against its next most recent defendant, NXP Semiconductors, head toward dismissal.

In connection with the acquisition of a large portfolio of patent assets from Avaya earlier this year, Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC CEO David Pridham reportedly predicted, “We expect to have over 20,000 patents by the end of the year”, while also expressing that “[n]inety percent of [Dominion’s] deals are done without litigation”, litigating only “when we have to”. Apparently, the Texas monetization firm “had to”, filing a pair of September 2024 suits against Comcast over a subset of the former Avaya assets; meanwhile, Dominion more recently inched closer to its predicted year-end patent holdings mark, another of its Texas entities picking up roughly 100 wireless communications patents at the end of October.