A US district court in Texas has ordered Dish Network Corporation and their sister company EchoStar Corporation to pay TiVo Inc approximately $200 million in a lingering patent dispute.
The amount includes $110 Million in compensation and another $90 Million in sanctions and Court costs. It all started back in 2004 when TiVo first filed suit against EchoStar (formerly the parent company of Dish Network) alleging there had been a violation of TiVo’s patent rights on its Digital Video Recorder. EchoStar’s response was that it too had created a Digital Video Recorder in good faith and had no intention of copying TiVo’s technology.
More about this story can be found here and here. If you’d rather stay out of the drama, you can order get a free upgrade for a high definition DVR from DIRECTV instead!
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