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Tivo and Echostar DVR Patent Saga Ends With $104 Million Payout to Tivo [TiVo]
Gizmodo — ... in a US Appeals court earlier this year, Echostar appealed to the Supreme Court, which just decided not to hear the case, leaving Echostar nowhere else to turn. ...

Losing When You Win
ACT - Protecting Small Business Innovation — ... Echostar continues to make on set-top boxes. Furthermore, without telling the court, Echostar claims to have distributed a software work-around to the TiVo patents in an attempt to make the injunction meaningless . TiVo has filed a motion for contempt against Echostar, which is still pending, but no matter the outcome, the incentives make it worth Echostar’s while to engage in this gambit. Even if Echostar is held in contempt, the court likely will not levy a large-enough fine to dent the very large sums at stake in keeping its DVRs on the market. Whether or not the judge ...

The Day in TiVo
Zatz Not Funny! — ... As this was an earnings call, the audience is obviously the investment community… and the info TiVo led with was their “First Full Year of Profitability”. That they would have recorded even without the $100+ million EchoStar patent infringement payment. However, these cost savings are a result of continued, reduced marketing expenditures, not new customers. In fact, ...

Court Says Dish Users Can Still TiVo DVR Shows [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — ... After losing its patent infringement case against TiVo, Dish (formerly known as EchoStar) developed a DVR workaround, but last month a Texas court ruled that this workaround still violated TiVo’s intellectual property. Dish was ...

TiVo wants $1 BILLION out of DISH/EchoStar
Zatz Not Funny! — ... Normally, when perusing the various legal briefs and news coverage out of the epic and ongoing TiVo v DISH/EchoStar DVR patent dispute, my eyes glaze over (see: ...

TiVo Loses More Customers, Sues AT&T & Verizon
Zatz Not Funny! — ... Photo by Zandir TiVo’s quarterly call was a bit more dramatic than usual. While they continue to lose customers and innovate “at a very unhurried pace”, TiVo seeks a repeat DISH Network performance by going after AT&T and Verizon for infringement. Basically, TiVo’s current business model appears to be ad sales and patent trolling. Unlike TiVo’s successful David v Goliath battle with DISH/EchoStar, things may play out a bit differently this time. First, ...

TiVo Loses More Customers, Sues AT&T and Verizon
Technologizer — ... TiVo’s quarterly call was a bit more dramatic than usual. While they continue to lose customers and innovate “at a very unhurried pace,” TiVo seeks a repeat DISH Network performance in going after AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) for infringement. Basically, TiVo’s current business model appears to be ad sales and patent trolling. Unlike TiVo’s successful David v Goliath battle ...