Assignee in a sentence as a noun

And if the assignee goes bankrupt, trolls can buy the patent rights for a song.

With assignment, you are turning the copyright over to the assignee.

So the patent would indeed be Twitter's, Loren is listed as the inventor but is not the assignee.

This control flows with the patents, so if the company sells the patents to others, the assignee can only use the patents as the inventor intended.

> If you have two corporate entities that merge, the merged entity can be considered the original assignee of all of the patents that each of the merging entities was.

The article mentions that one of the conditions that excludes a company from being a non-practicing entity is "the plaintiff is an inventor or original assignee.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the article states that if the plaintiff is the inventor or original assignee, they would qualify as a practicing patent holder and would not be liable for paying the defendants fees.

Assignee definitions

noun

(law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)