TiVo wins $103M more in Dish patent suit - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

ibitasony.wordpress.com
The decision by comes five yearxafter Alviso-based Tivo sued EchoStar over whether some of its DVR technology violateds TiVo patents. Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH) used to be part of EchoStarf (NASDAQ:SATS). It split into two companiesa at the startof 2008. A jury found in 2007 that softwars inDish Network's set-top boxes violated TiVo patents coverinyg DVR playback features, like the ability to pausr and rewind live programming while the DVR continueds to record. Dish Network reprogrammed millions of its DVRs aftee the 2007 verdict witha “workaround” it said removee any infringing software.
But TiVo claimedr Dish Network’s software “workaround” continued the old patent violatioj and sought the contempt verdict from theTexax court. Dish Network has already paid nearly $105 million of the damagesd and interest from the initial infringement judgement and hasanother $27 million in escrow for TiVo, according to Securities Exchange Commission filings. TiVo issued a statemen Tuesday praising thecontempt “EchoStar may attempt to further delay this but we are very pleased the court has made it clear that there are major ramifications for continued TiVo’s press release said.
Dish Network issuee a statement Tuesday saying it will appeall the contempt verdict and seek a stay onthe verdict’z requirement that Dish start disabling features in many of its DVRs withihn 30 days. “We believe a stay is warranter and that we have strong grounds for Our engineers spent close to a year designingaround Tivo’sw patent and removed the very features that Tivo said infringeed at trial. Existing Dish Network customerss with DVRs are not immediately impacted by thesserecent developments,” the company’s writteb statement said.