Patent transfers recently made public by the USPTO include multiple assignments between NPEs, several of which have litigated previously received assets, but others of which are new and have yet to file suit. They also include a grant to the US Treasury Department of four assets, one of which was “litigated” through this past July, when Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright, on the court’s own motion, brought the campaign to an end.

In early 2023, Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap was to preside over a trial between Collision Communications, Inc. (f/k/a Collision Technology, LLC) and Nokia in the first case that the plaintiff filed in this, its only litigation campaign; a settlement ended that proceeding a few weeks after Nokia filed a motion challenging Collision’s standing to sue over its patents. Now, the plaintiff has returned to litigation, this time suing Lenovo (2:23-cv-00594) and Samsung (2:23-cv-00587) in separate cases, also filed in the Eastern District of Texas, over two of the patents asserted against Nokia—and against Ericsson in a parallel suit—together with four others.

Early December saw a flurry of internal patent assignments among subsidiaries of Concert Technology Corporation, including one with a litigation history—suggesting that the monetization firm, formed by a group of employees from FlashPoint Technology, Inc., may be shifting gears in 2020.

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