BlackBerry acquisition of Certicom and patent portfolio assignment chain
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
The Certicom Patent Portfolio was initially assigned from inventors to Certicom, then from Certicom to BlackBerry as part of BlackBerry's acquisition of Certicom, and subsequently from BlackBerry to Malikie
Source (primary)
Malikie Innovations Ltd. v. MARA Holdings, Inc. (f/k/a Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc.) — Entry #92 (RECAP, court_filing)
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Quote: “The Certicom Patent Portfolio was initially assigned from the inventors to Certicom, then subsequently assigned from Certicom to BlackBerry (as part of Blackberry's acquisition of Certicom), and finally from BlackBerry to Malikie.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 29, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
MARA's motion describes this exact chain of assignment, from the inventors to Certicom, then to BlackBerry through its acquisition of Certicom, and finally to Malikie.
Confirmed in the source:
- The Certicom Patent Portfolio was first assigned from the inventors to Certicom.
- Certicom then assigned the portfolio to BlackBerry as part of BlackBerry's acquisition of Certicom.
- BlackBerry finally assigned the portfolio to Malikie.
What we did: Read our cached copy of RECAP (https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172841950/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172841950.92.0.pdf) in full (19,223 characters, retrieved September 27, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Malikie Innovations Ltd. v. MARA Holdings, Inc. (f/k/a Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc.) — Entry #92
Quote: “The Certicom Patent Portfolio was initially assigned from the inventors to Certicom, then subsequently assigned from Certicom to BlackBerry (as part of Blackberry's acquisition of Certicom), and finally from BlackBerry to Malikie.”