Motorola Sues TiVo

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. filed a suit against TiVo Inc. in Texas Friday claiming infringement of its patents for digital video recorders.

In the complaint, Motorola says it owns multiple patents related to DVRs, including some from the mid-1990s by a group of engineers whose company was later purchased by a Motorola subsidiary. It claimed TiVo willfully infringed those patents, which were filed more than two years before TiVo’s founding.

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