TiVo Wins Appeal On Patents For Pause, Ffwd, Rwd

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 8, 2008 @12:12AM from the satellites-descending dept.

Lorien_the_first_one writes "After years of wrangling, TiVo has won its day in court against Dish Network, formerly known as the EchoStar, when the Supreme Court declined to take up Dish Network's appeal, forcing the satellite television company to pay $104 million in damages. According to the article, 'TiVo originally won a patent infringement case in 2004 against Dish, which was then named EchoStar Communications. It charged that Dish illegally copied its technology, which allows people to pause, rewind, and record live television on digital video recorders.' Despite an injunction, Dish continued distributing its set-top boxes in the belief that the work-around they had implemented avoided infringing TiVo's patents. Now the case goes back to the lower court for review to determine if they did indeed steer clear of those patents."

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first post by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-08 00:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Something, Something, Dark Side... by intothemiddle · 2008-10-08 00:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

How can they patent fwd, rwd and record when they were present on Betamax/U-matic video recorders (1975/71).. Surely Gods patent on time pre-dates this Tivo one?!

What about all of the digital boxes like Sky/NTL/Virgin Media that have this?

I know this is /. but I hope someone reads the article for me soon!