TiVo Awarded $103M from Dish Network

TiVo, one of the pioneers in the digital video recorder industry, won an important court battle against Dish Network on Tuesday. Due to patent infringement, Dish Network was ordered by a federal judge in Texas to pay TiVo $103 million. Dish Network must also pay TiVo interest through April 2008.
At the time of this controversy, Dish Network was known as EchoStar. As could be expected, TiVo was thrilled with the ruling.
Said TiVo in a press release: “We are extremely gratified by the Court’s well reasoned and thorough decision, in which it rejected EchoStar’s attempted workaround claim regarding the TiVo patent, …read more