Of note among the assignment records published by the USPTO during the second half of July were multiple NPE-to-NPE transactions involving patents that have been previously asserted in litigation. Also in late July, a confirmatory assignment involving patents currently being litigated by Intellectual Ventures LLC was recorded, and CG Technology, LLC completed an uncharacteristic patent acquisition.

RPX took notice, among the assignment records published by the USPTO during the latter half of June, of the transfer of patents to several repeat players in patent litigation, including IP Edge LLC and Cerinet USA Inc. Also of note were two NPE-to-NPE transactions, from Intellectual Ventures LLC to IQ Holdings, LLC, and between M2M Solutions LLC and Blackbird Tech LLC.

Numic Technology, LLC, one of the many NPEs controlled by Daniel F. Perez, has added four new defendants to its wireless camera campaign. The Texas-based NPE has filed suit against BLU Products (2:16-cv-00079), Sonim Technologies (2:16-cv-00080), TCL (TCT Mobile, dba Alcatel OneTouch) (2:16-cv-00081), and ZTE (2:16-cv-00078) for the infringement of eight patents in the Eastern District of Texas. Numic began this litigation campaign, its first and only one to date, with a lawsuit against Nikon (2:15-cv-01046) in June 2015, asserting a single patent (5,969,698) also included in its newest filings. The NPE dismissed its case against Nikon with prejudice in late October 2015, while the other cases remain active and in the early stages. The accused products have included smartphones and tablets.

In the first two weeks of January 2016, RPX saw eight patent transfers to NPEs recorded with the USPTO.