This week’s look at US patent assignments recently made public by the USPTO considers the movement of a networking portfolio to a New Mexico plaintiff that has already filed suit; the transfer of a portfolio from a shuttered Colorado-based software company that used to operate in the SSD space to a Delaware entity formed by its last CEO; and suggestions in a recent denial of a motion to compel from Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap that the conduit of a pair of portfolios divested from an operating company has retained a financial interest in the outcome of subsequent litigation over one of them.

Patent assignments recently made public suggest another direct pickup for a New York-based investment management firm, this time through a familiar pipeline; movement of a search technology portfolio to a Delaware entity; and more patents filling out an apparent divestiture of a networking portfolio previously reported.