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Patent Office Re-Koshers TiVo’s Time Warp Patent Over EchoStar [Patents]

November 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized

TiVo already stomped EchoStar out in court a year and a half ago in a patent dispute over TiVo’s “multimedia time warping system.” Refresher: EchoStar cobbled together its own DVR setup, TiVo sued and won. EchoStar appeals to the US patent office for a review of TiVo’s patent. Today: The PTO finds TiVo’s patent to be valid in a decision that’s “final and not appealable by EchoStar.” Still left on the fight circuit, however, is the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, but the PTO’s decision for TiVo makes it all the more probable they’ll uphold the original ruling and injunction against EchoStar. TiVo’s take after the jump. [Flickr]
TiVo Statement on the United States Patent and Trademark Office Decision
ALVISO, CA –NOVEMBER 29th– TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and leader in television products and services for digital video recorders (DVR), offered the following statement today on the [...]

Original post by Matt Buchanan



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