Arris Group Inc. (ARRS)

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Decisive Future Looms for Arris Group, Inc.


** HUGE Returns Anticipated By Investors Holding Unified Online, Inc.
August 7th, 2018.

UnifiedOnline, Inc. [UOIP] is suing the 13 LARGEST cable operations in the US over patent infringement [February 2012- 2020].

Effectively, the entire industry uses DOCIS 3.0 and are infringing; this case is more significant than VirnetX [VHC] with their $500+ million award.

** Shareholders note that VirnetX had their patents invalidated by the Patent Trial Appeal Board [PTAB], while patents controlled by UOIP were validated and reinforced by the PTAB.

Cisco, Arris, and RPX are not being sued - their customers are, but these firms have attempted [and largely failed] to invalidate ChanBond patents.

Comparison:
The VirnetX (VHC) $502.6 Million Award from Apple (AAPL)

ChanBond IPR:
These patents are the core technology of high speed transmission of audio/video making streaming possible for cable.

To illustrate the returns possible from a positive outcome, if UnifiedOnline were to win a comparable, $500M judgment [see above, for VirnetX], the price-per-share would increase quite dramatically, at about 90 times the [April 13, 2018] valuation or share price.

Background – UnifiedOnline, Inc.

On October 27, 2015, UnifiedOnline, Inc. acquired 100% of the membership interest of ChanBond, LLC [ChanBond], a portfolio of patents that disclose a technology that allows cable companies to provide high-speed data transmission over their existing hybrid-fiber coaxial networks. They purchased Chanbond in exchange for $5,000,000 payable on or before October 27, 2020 and forty-four million, seven hundred thousand (44,700,000) shares of the Company’s common stock. William R. Carter, Jr. [a related party to the Company] was appointed as sole manager and has sole and exclusive authority over all operations and activities.

On September 21, 2015, ChanBond filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Delaware against the 13 largest cable MSOs in the country. ChanBond contends that virtually every cable multi-system operator [MSO] in the U.S. utilizing DOCSIS 3.0+ is infringing upon its patents. Alleged infringement of 3 wideband signal distribution system patents follow:

Cisco filed 8 inter-party reviews [IPRs] patents at the PTAB.

Cisco Lost 7 out of 8 of those Reviews, but won on one of them.

This single decision on IPR2016-01744 [February 23, 2018] supported Cisco.

**Now being appealed by ChanBond at the present time versus Cisco.


Cisco and Arris are not being sued.

Only the 13 cable companies.

However, Cisco attempted to get the patents invalidated because their customers were at risk of infringement and because they provide the hardware to the cable companies that infringed on the patents. Some shareholders believe that Cisco strengthened opposition positions for trial later this year.

Arris is going through a similar process, but is likely to have missed filing deadlines.

Note:
Arris has been denied their STAY!


** ARRIS International PLC (ARRS) makes reference to the patent infringement case in their financial statement footnotes.

Specifically they admit that they may have to indemnify all 13 Cable Companies being sued by ChanBond.

http://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReports/PDF/NASDAQ_ARRS_2017.pdf

As of April 18, 2018, ARRIS had a market capitalization of more than $5 billion.

Shareholders of Arris Group Inc......BEWARE of this outcome.

JMHO