In the first half of August 2016, RPX saw five patent transfers to NPEs recorded with the USPTO. Assignees include IP Valuation Partners LLC—affiliates of which have collectively filed nearly 50 patent infringement suits to date—and France Brevets. Also, a newly formed NPE controlled by the manager of Multiplayer Network Innovations, LLC, which in 2014-2015 sued over 25 operating companies, received a patent from Rovi Corporation.

In the second half of June 2016, RPX saw over 20 patent transfers to NPEs recorded with the USPTO. A number of those transactions involved patents that have been asserted in litigation against operating companies—some as recently as this past week.

In the first half of November 2015, RPX saw six patent transfers to NPEs recorded by the USPTO. Two of those recently recorded transactions involve patents that have been previously asserted in litigation against operating companies.

In the first half of October 2015, RPX saw eleven patent transfers to NPEs recorded with the USPTO.

NFC Technology, LLC, a subsidiary of France Brevets, filed its second patent assertion suit against Samsung. The suit asserts four patents, two of which have not been used in previous litigation. (6,700,551, 7,098,770, 7,665,664, 7,905,419). The patents-in-suit relate to inductive coupling for wireless applications used in near-field communication (NFC), and Samsung’s NFC capable mobile devices are accused of infringement. These four patents are the only ones owned by NFC according to USPTO records.