"...highly unlikely UCI has any sort of say over whether Cortex gets bought out."
well, that sounds right; i don't think uci cares who pays them their cut.
there is probably a 200 page agreement put together by two teams of lawyers in a language that at times may seem similar to english that states something like "render unto ceaser what is ceaser's, render unto God what is God's." i'll let you decide which one is cortex and which one is uci.