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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.'"

2 of 476 comments (clear)

  1. Re:In other news... by bruthasj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny thing is they're living in the same safe house. It started as an argument about who got the top bunk. I'll let you write the dialog...

  2. Re:Go Patent Office! by TGK · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So for example, the invention of the dual head hard drive predating the TiVo allows for the storing (recording) of one file in the background while reading another file from the disk?

    Just because you're piping the output to a TV and taking the download from a coaxial cable doesn't change what you're doing.

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