RPX took notice, among the USPTO assignment records made available during the latter part of February, of the transfer of patents from operating companies Dongbu, Eastman Kodak, Honeywell, IBM, and Koninklijke Philips to various NPEs. One of those NPEs (Uniloc Corporation Pty. Limited) has already launched a campaign asserting the patents that it received (from IBM). RPX also saw during this time the recordation of the assignment of one two-way radio patent from one litigating NPE to another (the second, an affiliate of IP Edge LLC) and the assignment of two database management patents from a Daniel F. Perez entity that asserted them in litigation back to the Georgia patent monetization firm from which that NPE acquired them.

New NPE RFJ Licensing, LLC has filed a new lawsuit for the third month in a row. The most recent case, against Ritron (3:16-cv-00738), asserts a single patent (7,333,806) that generally relates to the operation of two-way radios over a computer network. In January 2016, RFJ sued Tait Radio (3:16-cv-00261), and in February, it sued Icom (3:16-cv-00504), asserting the ‘806 patent in both Northern District of Texas cases. Two-way radio systems are the accused products.