Look...I believe there was some sort of agreement involving Dennis, DPLS, UNB and Brown 10 years ago. There is some reference to an assignment agreement that has never been disclosed (even though it should be as a material agreement to a publicly traded company). And what was disclosed in the filings refers to a lien on the patent by the university as collateral on the debenture.
But again, the problem is that what Dennis has said, what is in the disclosures and what is in the USPTO database is not consistent at all between any element.
And given Dennis’ propensity to exaggerate or make stuff up...means that whatever the deal actually is with that patent is hardly clear at all.
But what we can say for sure is that DPLS does not OWN it nor has it been assigned to DPLS.
As for this notion of “Rights” which is different than “ownership” or “assignment”...there is literally NOTHING in the disclosures, nor in any of Dennis’ statements that support that as the term should be used specifically if indeed we are taking about patent “rights”.