Good news for TiVo: court upholds patent claims against Echostar
The TiVo vs. EchoStar case got another little push towards finally ending today, as the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that EchoStar had indeed infringed part of TiVo's "time warp" patent. You might recall that the case had recently been on hold while the USPTO re-affirmed that the patent was valid -- armed with that decision, the appeals court ruled that EchoStar had crossed the line on the software component of the patent, but that more information was needed regarding whether or not EchoStar's hardware also infringed. That means we're in for another round of wrangling down in Marshall -- we'll keep you updated, if we can manage to stay awake.[Via Zatz Not Funny! Warning: PDF read link]
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TURNERSVILLE @ Jan 31st 2008 2:41PM
As long as I don't have to give back my Dish HD DVR then who cares!!
cckrobinson @ Jan 31st 2008 3:29PM
My pocket book cares. I just make a nice little profit on my Tivo stock :)
Glen @ Feb 1st 2008 12:07AM
Yay TiVo!
I've been an avid TiVo fan since 1999 (analog, series 1), moving up to 3 TiVos.
It's funny; my wife "indulged" me, letting me buy an expensive "toy" -- we had 2 VCR's, and that let us "time-shift" shows by ourself.
I bought the S1 TiVo, and I SWEAR -- a week later, my wife (a non-techie pre-school teacher) was SO TAKEN by the TiVo, that if she would have divorced me (a week later!), she would have taken the TiVo with her!
So, now, we are still using SD DirecTV; we moved from the analog to DTV in 2004, and now have 3 TiVos. We both would rather sacrifice HD or DirecTV than lose TiVo.
Wow, sucks how bad cable out here is...
Glen @ Feb 1st 2008 12:49AM
Yay TiVo!
I've been an avid TiVo fan since 1999 (analog, series 1), moving up to 3 TiVos.
It's funny; my wife "indulged" me, letting me buy an expensive "toy" -- we had 2 VCR's, and that let us "time-shift" shows by ourself.
I bought the S1 TiVo, and I SWEAR -- a week later, my wife (a non-techie pre-school teacher) was SO TAKEN by the TiVo, that if she would have divorced me (a week later!), she would have taken the TiVo with her!
So, now, we are still using SD DirecTV; we moved from the analog to DTV in 2004, and now have 3 TiVos. We both would rather sacrifice HD or DirecTV than lose TiVo.
Wow, sucks how bad cable out here is...