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TiVo sues EchoStar for Patent Infringement

Posted by michael on from the there-can-be-only-one dept.

jhkoh writes "TiVo has filed a lawsuit against satellite TV provider EchoStar for infringing on its 'Time Warp' patent for DVR time-shifting. TiVo CEO Mike Ramsay adds: 'Our aim here is not to litigate everybody ... but to further advance and seek commercial relationships so that people recognize the value of our intellectual property, and give us fair compensation.'"

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  1. In other news... by tarquin_fim_bim · · Score: 3, Funny

    Adolph Hitler sues Osama Bin Laden for infringements to his xenophobia patents.

  2. All Together Now by jazman_777 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What? TiVo has Intellectual Property? All together now, slashdotters (kneejerkers): "TiVo must die!"

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    1. Re:All Together Now by fastidious+edward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I have invented a method to skip TiVo's IP, therefore I do not have to be exposed to it.

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  3. when your company can't hang by abolith · · Score: 2, Funny
    with the competitors, Litigate!

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  4. Prior art... by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... by Dr. Frankenfurter:
    "It's just a step to the left..."

    Let's do the time warp again!

  5. Ridiculous Patents by mrkslntbob · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why are people just randomly allowed to patent doing things? "Tivo's can pause and rewind live TV, so they should be the only legal way to do so." So if the train company patented driving you to work, and i decided to walk, i'd be infringing on their patent and hopefully arrested before arriving to work. Justice is served.

    1. Re:Ridiculous Patents by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 4, Funny

      Congratulations mrkslntbob!

      I hereby award you worst metaphor of the day on the whole entire internet! By comparing TiVo to a train company and other PVR companies to walking, you have created the least applicable comparison posted on the web in the last 24 hours! Unfortunately, this distinction does not come with any cash reward, though expect someone who agrees with you to mod you up, even though it will be clear they do not understand the issue either! We also would have accepted comparing TiVo to either "like a car" or the Nazi's.

    2. Re:Ridiculous Patents by mrkslntbob · · Score: 2, Funny

      Making fun of me has already been patented. You're infringing on the intellectual properties of some jackasses i went to junior high with.

      Thank you, good day.

  6. Meritless Case by spektr · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I were up to infringe a time warp patent, I would create prior art in the past.