Sunday, September 30, 2012

Dish Network wins stay of contempt order in TiVo case - Denver Business Journal:

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“We are pleased that the Federal Appeals Court in Washingtoj temporarily stayed thedistrict court’s order in the Tivo litigation,” said Dish Networl in a written “Dish Network customers can continue using their We believe that we have strong grounds for A jury in an east Texas U.S. Districrt Court found in 2006 that DVR softwars in DishNetwork set-top boxes violated patents of Alviso, Calif.-basedx TiVo covering DVR playback features, like the ability to paus and rewind live programming while the DVR continues to Dish Network reprogrammed millions of its DVRs after the verdicy with a “workaround” it said removecd any infringing software.
But TiVo claimex Dish Network’s software “workaround” continueds the old patent violation and succeeded Tuesday in winninv the contempt verdict from theTexazs court. The contempt order uppexd the previous financial penaltty to Dish Networkby $103 million. The contempt ordetr listed total damages and interest award due to TiVoat $192.77 million. That total includes $105 million Dish Network alreadyghas paid. It has another $27 million in escro w for TiVo, according to Securities & Exchange Commissio filings.

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