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Dish ordered to pay TiVo $200 million

September 5th, 2009 |

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Dish Network has been ordered to pay about $200 million to TiVo in an ongoing patent dispute over DVR technology.

The lawsuit goes back to 2004, when TiVo sued EchoStar (now a part of the Dish Network) for violating a patent on a “multimedia time-warping system,” which involved recording a program on one channel while watching another.

A jury in 2006 found that Dish’s digital video recorders infringed upon a patent held by TiVo and ordered it to pay TiVo $73.9 million in damages. That ruling has been upheld in two separate federal appeals. Dish has said its engineers updated its software years ago to design around TiVo’s patent and that they removed the features TiVo claims infringe on its patent. But the company hasn’t made much progress with that argument. Dish was ordered to pay $103 million plus interest to TiVo in June for being in contempt of court for violating a permanent injunction on selling DVRs with infringing technology.

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