USPTO assignment records previously made public had put the size of the patent portfolio acquired by Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC (VCT) at around two dozen. However, more recent assignments made available indicate that the March 2024 transfer was (at least) roughly twice that size.

Recorded patent assignments recently made public reveal a new Texas entity operated by a familiar and funded monetization team picking up a semiconductor portfolio; a networking entity previously backed by Fortress Investment Group LLC moving a traffic management portfolio onto the market; an IoT provider transferring all of its US patent assets during a “controlled recapitalization”; a Texas entity tied to an now-established operation topping off a prior acquisition, here with a video communications patent and a network collaboration patent; and the continued Delaware-to-Texas flow of patents by a named inventor awaiting the lift of a Northern District of California stay, that lift increasingly likely given a long list of inter partes reviews (IPRs) and ex parte reexaminations (EPR) seeming to draw to an end.

Two portfolios assigned to entities tied to patent monetization professionals are worth noting this week: one from the same source as that chip packaging portfolio highlighted a couple of weeks ago and one to a recipient with ties that suggest that litigation over the transacted assets is coming.