Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Arris International Limited is a telecommunications equipment manufacturer that is now a brand and subsidiary of CommScope Holding Company, Inc. Founded in 1995 as Arris Interactive, the company had its executive offices in Suwanee, Georgia. In April 2019, CommScope acquired Arris for approximately $7.4 billion. Prior to the acquisition, the combined pro forma revenue of the two companies was approximately $11.3 billion. After the acquisition, Arris became part of a combined company with roughly 15,000 patents and patent applications.
Arris is an operating company known for designing and manufacturing equipment for data, video, and telephony systems for both residential and business customers. The company's major product lines include Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and Network & Cloud solutions. Specific products under the Arris SURFboard brand include cable modems, Wi-Fi modem/router combination units, and other home networking hardware. The company also produced set-top boxes, video gateways, and enterprise networking equipment, including the Ruckus Wireless and ICX Switch businesses it had previously acquired.
As an operating company, Arris's patent litigation posture is that of a defendant. The company has been named as a defendant in one tracked case and has not appeared as a plaintiff. This is consistent with an operating company being targeted by a patent assertion entity. The single tracked case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, a popular venue for patent litigation.
The notable case involving Arris is Atlas Global Technologies LLC v. CommScope, Inc. et al., filed in 2021. In this suit, Arris is a defendant alongside its parent company, CommScope. The plaintiff, Atlas Global Technologies, is a non-practicing entity (NPE) that has filed numerous infringement suits against various technology companies. Atlas has asserted patents related to Wi-Fi technology in other cases, winning a significant verdict against another router manufacturer in a separate matter.
This case is one of the initial filings in a broad litigation campaign by Atlas Global Technologies LLC asserting U.S. Patent 10,020,919 against multiple technology companies.