Acacia Research Corporation formed at least two new Texas NPEs in April, according to that state’s public records. One of those recently created NPEs holds a portfolio of patents that originate with Panasonic and generally concern digital mapping. While Acacia has disclosed having acquired multiple patent portfolios this year—including two received from Marconi in February, one of which included patents developed by Samsung—it is not yet clear from whom Acacia received the former Panasonic patents.

Public records have identified Marconi as the source of at least some of the patents recently acquired by Acacia Research Corporation. The transacted portfolio, assigned in February to a newly created Acacia subsidiary, includes assets originating with Samsung as well as patents developed by Fusion-IO (which in 2014 was acquired by SanDisk for $1.1B).

In the first half of May 2016, RPX saw nine patent transfers to NPEs recorded with the USPTO. At least three of those transactions involved patents that have already been asserted in litigation against operating companies.

In the second half of April 2016, RPX saw eleven patent transfers to known NPEs recorded with the USPTO.

In the past two months, three NPEs with ties to Robert A. Westerland—IP Communication Solutions, LLC, Content Aggregation Solutions LLC, and Nova Intellectual Solutions, LLC—have filed nearly 20 cases against a total of 18 operating companies, including Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Facebook, Huawei, HTC, LG Electronics, Sharp, Sony, and ZTE. These NPEs’ principal place of business, according to their complaints, is a luxury condominium in Dallas, Texas owned by Westerlund—a well-known patent attorney, patent broker, and inventor connected to NPEs that have litigated both patents issuing to Westerlund and patents issuing to others but subsequently acquired for assertion.