This past March, RPX reported the transfer to NERA Innovations Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited entity, from five others operating under the umbrella of the Dublin-based patent monetization firm. Each of those assignors had previously sued multiple defendants in US federal courts over some of the assets later moved to NERA. Now, IAM has reported that NERA Innovations has put at least one of its received assets to use—but not in the US.

In addition to the announced divestiture of a large tranche of VoIP patents from Avaya to Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, March 2024 saw several other operating companies—including DXC Technology, Huawei, and SOLiD—unload patent assets. Several NPE enterprises also moved patents around, internally or to other NPEs, seemingly in preparation for new assertion campaigns.

Separate assignments of patent assets from five entities operating under the umbrella of Dublin-based patent monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited to a sixth such entity were recently recorded and made public by the USPTO. The transfers leave each of those divestors without any US patent holdings, at least according to currently available assignment records. Two Atlantic IP plaintiffs have notified the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the change in real party-in-interest in proceedings before it.