TiVo Infringes On Pause Patent

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday October 2, 2001 @06:07AM from the dumb-dumb-patents dept.

Blackwulf writes: "It seems that there's a company named Pause Technologies which patented in 1992 the ability to pause live TV, play a portion of it, and then skip ahead to live TV. They are now suing TiVo for infringing on their patent. Motorola has already paid licensing fees for their upcoming PVR, and Pause Technologies is speaking with other PVR makers offering licenses to them as well. Yahoo has the story here." Pausing. Obviously, a new idea, and one worthy of patenting. I think I'm going to patent the play button.

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Sue Sony by crumbz · 2001-10-02 06:12 · Score: 0, Troll

Unless there is some real-time aspect or specific digital technology at issue here, I don't see them winning this one. Who knows? Screw it, I don't use Tivo anyway. Why watch TV when you can program an old Apple //c?