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Dish must pay TiVo $200 million for infringing on DVR technology

September 4th, 2009, 6:49 pm · 3 Comments · posted by

TiVo logoThe ongoing legal dispute between TiVo and Dish Network took a turn in TiVo’s favor, according to late Friday afternoon statements from both companies.

TiVo, which sued EchoStar Communications Corp. and Dish for infringing on its digital-recording patents, has been on the winning end all summer. After Dish appealed the last order by a Texas judge to dismantle all infringing digital video recorders, the Texas court ruled today that Dish must pay TiVo $200 million for the continued violation. (See earlier story: “Dish infringes on TiVo’s patents, ordered to dismantle DVR features.”)

“We are pleased by the Court’s ruling to impose contempt sanctions of approximately $200 million against EchoStar for its continued violation of a Court-ordered permanent injunction, and to award TiVo its attorney fees and costs incurred during the contempt proceedings. This brings total damages and sanctions in this case to approximately $400 million through July 1, 2009, plus attorney fees, and is exclusive of potential further damages and sanctions,” TiVo said in a statement. “We are confident that this ruling brings us closer to final resolution.”

Dish, meanwhile, also praised the order somewhat by saying it was pleased the judge rejected TiVo’s request to levy a $1 billion judgment. In its statement, Dish said:

“We are pleased that the district court rejected Tivo’s request to award a billion dollars in sanctions and that it found that any violation of the injunction was not willful. While we disagree that any amount of sanctions was warranted, the decision confirms our belief that we designed around Tivo’s patent in good faith. We believe that we ultimately will prevail on appeal.”

So, it looks like the case will continue through appeals.

Related: Dish Told to Pay TiVo About $200 Million Over Patent(Bloomberg)

Earlier on TiVos and DVRs:

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  • kda0045 says:
    September 5, 2009 at 10:23 am

    I’ve been wondering why the market hasn’t been flooded with DVD-HDD recorders, and I thought maybe it was because of Blu-Ray becoming the next step-up in DVD. Tivo has lawsuits going on over a lot of things, and it’s keeping the good stuff locked out of the U.S.A.

    Well I stumble across Panasonic Global via AVforums, and I find out that they can get loads of DVD recorders in the U.K.

    Check this stuff out:

    DMR-XS350
    HD DVD Recorder
    High Definition Recording & Playback onto HDD
    “Twin HD Satellite Tuner – Record 2 Programmes Simultaneously with HD Quality* *For 2 programmes recording simultaneously, HDD+HDD are available”
    Compatible with VIERA CAST (YouTubeTM, PicasaTM etc)
    Faithful and Sharp Colour Reproduction with High Definition Chroma Processor and P4HD
    Compatible with Freesat+
    VIERA Link (HDAVI Control4)
    Much more stuff to see on their site, and Blu-Ray recorders coming too:

    http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_G…sCategory.html

    I checked to see if Canada can get stuff we can’t, nope… they get less than we do.

    But Mexico can get Blu-Ray recorders, and maybe other stuff that we can’t. I can’t tell since they use different model numbers… and a different language.

    DMP-BD60PU-K
    Reproductor de discos Blu-ray Full HD

    PHL Compresor de Imagen de Alta Calidad- Reproduce fielmente los detalles mas finos y una extraordinaria definición.
    Viera Cast- Encuentre y vea fácilmente videos de You Tube y álbumes de fotos en Picasa.
    Nuevo diseño slim.
    CARACTERISTICAS

    Alta calidad de imagen
    Procesador de colores 4:4:4
    Capacidad de reproducción 1080p con P4HD
    Procesador Progresivo de Píxel en HD
    Reproducción Multiformato Blu-ray, DVD, CD
    NETWORKING
    BDLive- Disfruta contenidos extras de tus películas conectándote a Internet a través de Puerto Ethernet

    http://www.panasonic.com.mx/verProdu…B%C0%BA%C2s%8F

  • kda0045 says:
    September 5, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Are any of the other companies going to bring HDD DVRs’ to the United States ? Philips and Magnavox had some, but they seem to have with drawn from the market, except for WalMart carries a Magnavox that you have to order from their on-line site.

  • kda0045 says:
    September 6, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    I stumbled across Panasonic Global via AVforums, and I find out that they can get loads of DVD recorders in the U.K. I checked to see if Canada can get stuff we can’t, nope… they get less than we do.
    But Mexico can get Blu-Ray recorders, and maybe other stuff that we can’t. I can’t tell since they use different model numbers… and a different language.

    Much more stuff to see on their site, and Blu-Ray recorders coming too:

    http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_G…sCategory.html

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