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SONICblue Sues TiVo for Patent Infringement

Posted by chrisd on from the guess-we-saw-this-coming dept.

SVDave writes "Yesterday, Slashdot reported that SONICblue was going to start negotiating patent licensing with TiVo. It appears that SONICblue has switched strategies: today they've decided to sue TiVo for patent infringement. Given TiVo's patents on PVR technology, I would expect a quick countersuit, though SONICblue claims that ReplayTV does not infringe on any of TiVo's patents."

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  1. Heh.. by MyNameIsRaGe · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Can anyone truthfully say they didn't see this coming?

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    ~RaGe
    www.outrigged.com
  2. Wake Me Up When It`s Over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Is it really worth discussing potential legal wrangles like this ? Just post a story about the settlement when it`s all over.

  3. Im not sure I understand. by zeno_2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From what I have looked at, Tivo has patents dealing with the physical hardware and transport of movie files that get recorded to a hard disk.

    Replaytv has patents that are pretty similar, but they focus more on the channel guide, and how to record using it.

    Tivo submitted their patents on this 8 days before replytv did. They got their patent awarded to them about 6 months prior to when Replaytv got their patents awarded to them.

    From what I can see, they are both using each others ideas from the patents, BUT, tivo was there first.

    Ah well, im not a lawyer, so I really dont know whos in the right here, but id side with Tivo.

    Zeno