In the first half of June 2016, RPX saw six patent transfers to NPEs recorded with the USPTO. At least one of those transactions involved a patent that has already been asserted in litigation.

Scientific Telecommunications LLC (SciTel) has opened up a second litigation campaign, asserting a single patent (6,519,259) generally related to improving packet-based voice communications against VT iDirect (1:16-cv-00436). SciTel accuses the defendant of infringement through provision of satellite communicates via its iDirect Evolution DVB-S2/ACM system. (DVB-S2 is a second generation standard for digital video broadcast by satellite.) The ‘259 patent is the last of the four patents that SciTel received from Trident IP Solutions, LLC in late 2014—in what prior defendants have characterized as a “sham” transaction—to be asserted in litigation.

In the first half of May 2015, RPX saw 15 patent transfers recorded with the USPTO.