Leckrone has ownership of said patents. Per his statement:

"This has created confusion as to the ownership of these patents. I never assigned any patents to TPL."

and

"In October 2003 Leckrone filed assignments of 4 patents with the PTO, without my knowledge or consent. These assignments were documented with excerpts from the Commercialization Agreement between TPL and me. I discovered this in July 2008.

If you study the convoluted documents, what was assigned appears to be "rights and entitlements" devolving from the Agreement. That would be an exclusive license to, in turn, license and enforce the patents. Nowhere appear the magic words "entire right, title and interest in" that normally occur in patent assignments. And, in fact, occur in the assignment to me from iTv.

TPL has claimed to own these patents in press releases. I contest this and expect to see ownership clarified in court.

Here are the 2 assignments recorded by Leckrone:

US 5,440,749 and US 5,530,890

US 5,440,749, US 5,784,584 and US 5,809,336 "