Since April 2015, seven NPEs managed by two partners at IP Valuation Partners LLC have collectively filed over 30 patent infringement suits against operating companies. Six of these NPEs were incorporated in Texas in 2015. (Gene Reader LLC was incorporated in Texas in 2014.) Each NPE is managed by IP Valuation’s Jason Bourgeois (a former patent agent trained in biomedical engineering) or Jonathan Szarzynski (a former patent licensing director at IPNav). Spangler Law P.C. represents all seven of the NPEs in litigation.

In the second half of October 2015, RPX saw five patent transfers to NPEs recorded with the USPTO (roughly half the number observed in the first half of the month). One of those recently recorded transactions has already resulted in new litigation filed by an NPE affiliated with IP Valuation Partners LLC.