Recently recorded patent assignments made public by the USPTO contain noteworthy transfers to multiple plaintiffs now in litigation, including a new source of patents for Apex Beam Technologies LLC, a new source of patents for Pantech Corporation, and a familiar source of patent rights for Crystal Leap Zrt, this time assigning patents directly, though. Movement can also be seen from troubled patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC, as well as movement from various sources to patent broker Allied Security Trust. Take a look.

AdaptFlow Technologies LLC, a plaintiff associated with Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC, has launched litigation over a subset of a 700-plus patent portfolio received from Technicolor SA in July 2020. The new Western District of Texas complaint accuses Roku (6:22-cv-00996) of infringing eight such patents through the provision of its streaming platform and related products, including the Roku TV, streaming products, solutions, and more. IP Edge has initiated more than a dozen campaigns from this large portfolio pickup, but AdaptFlow’s is a bit unique among them.

As IP Edge LLC continues its usual month-end onslaught of new filings—including a handful involving a former Panasonic patent, and nine more over former ZTE patents—USPTO records suggest that the monetization firm has several patent portfolios lined up for future assertion. Meanwhile, other IP Edge moves indicate that the firm’s monetization strategies may continue to evolve beyond short-lived cases filed and dismissed in bulk.

Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC has been the most prolific NPE plaintiff over the last several years, filing hundreds of cases through various LLCs over the alleged infringement of patents from a wide variety of sources. The LLC plaintiffs have typically conducted their campaigns in file-and-dismiss fashion, lately at around a 50 case-per-month clip across the IP Edge board, but certain entities associated with the firm have departed from that approach since 2020—and two LLCs created in Texas in June of this year suggest that such departures may continue.