Defendant

WideOpenWest

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
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0
1 closed
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Company profile

WideOpenWest, Inc. (doing business as WOW!) is a U.S. broadband and cable operator headquartered in Englewood, Colorado (Denver Tech Center). The company traces its founding to 1996 and began delivering cable service in the late 1990s/early 2001; the current public holding entity was incorporated in 2012. It is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker WOW, with a market capitalization of roughly $440 million as of November 2025 — a small-cap operator, not a subsidiary of a larger parent.

Operations. WOW! provides residential high-speed data (HSD) internet, video/cable television, and digital telephony, plus business and wholesale services and some data-center connectivity. It operates primarily in Midwest and Southeast U.S. markets and has emphasized "greenfield" fiber builds in recent years. Its subscriber base is modest and declining: approximately 464,500 total subscribers and 457,100 HSD RGUs as of September 30, 2025, with quarterly revenue of $144.0 million in Q3 2025 (down ~9% year over year). Historical company materials cite roughly 2,600 employees nationwide, though current headcount is not verified here.

Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data show WOW! as a pure defendant (0 cases as plaintiff, 1 as defendant). This is the classic profile of an operating company being targeted rather than an aggressor or NPE. Its sole tracked matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. WideOpenWest, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado — not a plaintiff-friendly venue like the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable case context. Plaintiff Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian non-practicing entity (incorporated 2019) that acquires patents, largely indirectly from Intellectual Ventures, and has sued hundreds of defendants. Public reporting indicates Cedar Lane accused WOW!'s "WOW! tv+ Voice Remote" and streaming box of infringing remote-control and internet-media patents; a substantively similar Cedar Lane suit against WOW! was filed in the same court in 2021 and later voluntarily dismissed. No merits determination is asserted here.