Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. ARRIS Group, Inc. — later reorganized as ARRIS International plc and commonly called "ARRIS" — was a communications technology company headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia (metro Atlanta). It is commonly reported as founded in 1995 out of the cable-TV equipment operations of ANTEC and Nortel, though sources vary on the founding date. ARRIS was publicly traded on NASDAQ (ticker ARRS) until CommScope Holding Company (NASDAQ: COMM) acquired it for $31.75 per share in an all-cash deal valued at roughly $7.4 billion including debt; the transaction closed April 4, 2019, and ARRIS shares were delisted. ARRIS is now part of CommScope. Its FY2018 revenue was approximately $6.74 billion (per its Q4/FY2018 earnings release), and third-party profiles place headcount in the several-thousands range (roughly 5,000–8,000).
Products / operations. ARRIS sold entertainment, communications and networking hardware and services to cable, telco, satellite and media customers, organized into three segments: Customer Premises Equipment (set-top boxes, cable/DSL modems and gateways, DOCSIS devices, including retail SURFboard-branded products); Network & Cloud (broadband access platforms such as CMTS/CCAP, video infrastructure and IPTV distribution); and Enterprise Networks (the acquired Ruckus Wireless Wi-Fi access points and controllers and ICX switches). It also provided technical support, repair/refurbishment, and system design and integration. ARRIS acquired Pace plc (2016) and Ruckus Networks (2017) before the CommScope deal.
Patent-litigation posture. The case data is consistent with an operating company: 0 tracked cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant. There is no indication of affirmative assertion activity; ARRIS appears as an accused infringer. The sole tracked venue is the Central District of California, not a plaintiff-friendly district such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case. XR Communications, LLC v. ARRIS International plc et al. (C.D. Cal., tracked as filed 2018-02-02) is the single tracked suit. XR Communications, which does business as Vivato Technologies, is a patent-assertion entity asserting antenna-array/beamforming patents (U.S. Patents 6,611,231; 7,062,296; 7,729,728) against Wi-Fi equipment makers, including ARRIS/Ruckus, Aruba, Cisco, NETGEAR and Belkin. The '231 dispute continued on appeal (Fed. Cir. No. 22-1125, 2023), where the asserted claims were held indefinite.
2018 Central District of California case related to the N.D. Cal. Ruckus matter and involving the '231 patent. It was resolved via appeal Nos. 22-1125/22-1141.