TiVo has long suffered from competitors using the television pause and rewind technology for which TiVo became famous. Now, though, the struggling DVR maker has managed to convince a federal judge that Dish Network and its sister firm, EchoStar, have violated an injunction against copying the technology, forcing the latter two companies to pay a total of $200 million to TiVo.
While Dish Network plans to appeal the case, it will be forced to pay the $110 million in damages, $90 million in sanctions, and additional attorney fees, as well as additional sanctions if it loses its appeal. This ruling comes …read more

Canadian company MOSAID Technologies has filed a lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp., otherwise known as IBM, for six alleged patent infringements. According to MOSAID, it has tried for years to reach some sort of settlement with IBM but has been unable to agree with the technology giant in negotiations.
 
The lawsuit focuses on IBM’s producing and selling certain products that use technology patented by MOSAID without ever having acquired a license to their patents. The technology involves microprocessors and Application-Specific Integrated Circuits that IBM would otherwise certainly be able to use if it had pursued a license.
 
MOSAID President and CEO …read more

Expect sour grapes from Star Scientific Inc. in the coming days, as the tobacco company just emerged as the loser in a huge lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Although Star Scientific Claimed that R.J. Reynolds infringed on its patents, a Baltimore jury found that R.J. Reynolds had done no such thing.
This means that R.J. Reynolds will not be have to pay the hundreds of millions of dollars that Star Scientific sought in damages for the perceived infringement of R.J. Reynolds upon a new tobacco curing method that removes more cancer-causing chemicals. It also means that Star Scientific will also …read more