UnifiedOnline Inc fka UOIP

[Parker61]

DOCSIS 3.0 technology is the current technology of today.
DOCSIS was also approved by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) as international standard - which could lead to a global lititgation - lol!
The cable companies are using the patent not the manufacturer (Cisco & Arris -who are not named in the litigation).
The court will tell the cable companies to pay for the use (since the beginning) or stop using the technology. That is where the buyout comes into play.
Cisco sold their cable business to Technicolor for $660m in 06/2015.
They currently have no interest in bidding for the patent as they are not in the license as a service business. However, Arris (who is still in the cable modem business) would have an enormous interest in protecting their customers (all the cable companies) - as previously mentioned.

BTW - PTAB is not in the business of driving companies to bankruptcy. ARRIS will owe a small percentage of profits..usually 1 to 3%...that will not put them out of business. The consumer will ultimately "pay more at the pump" so ARRIS 'could' get back some of their losses.