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EchoStar Pays TiVo $104.6 Million in Damages
TiVo Inc., a company that helped pioneer the personal video recorder (PVR), has been in a long-running patent dispute with EchoStar Corp, seller of the Dish Network DVR. TiVo owns a patent on one of the cornerstones of its PVR devices: the ability to record a program on a digital video recorder while watching another one at the same time. At trial in Texas, a jury found that EchoStar, through its set-top box, wilfully infringed TiVo’s patent. The decision was affirmed in multiple appeals. EchoStar appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear arguments. EchoStar has paid TiVo $104.6 million in damages.
The parties are still awaiting a ruling in a related injunction proceeding over whether EchoStar owes TiVo more damages for failing to deactivate infringing devices.
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