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Peter Kafka in on May 2, 2011 at 5:25 am PT
Dish and EchoStar are paying TiVo half a billion dollars to settle a long-running patent fight over DVR technology. The two satellite TV companies will pay TiVo $300 million up front, and the remainder over 6 years, to settle suits that started in 2004. The settlement follows an April 20 legal victory for TiVo.
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David B. Wilkerson, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on April 20, 2011 at 12:12 pm PT
TiVo Inc. stock was up 35 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday after a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that would force satellite broadcaster Dish Network to shut down millions of digital video recorders because they were found to have infringed upon TiVo Inc. patents.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 29, 2010 at 8:07 am PT
The TV guys are happy to let Microsoft deliver shows to your living room — as long as they pay up, and as long as they don’t disrupt the party.
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Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on October 20, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
TerreStar said its majority-owned Terrestar Networks unit and certain other affiliates have filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code.
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that a Chapter 11 filing likely was imminent.
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Kathy Shwiff and Ian Sherr, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 6, 2010 at 2:55 pm PT
TiVo Inc. said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reaffirmed the validity of all its patent claims for its “time-warp” digital video recorder technology in the second re-examination of the patent at EchoStar Corp.’s request.
TiVo’s shares jumped 9.7 percent to $10.08 in 4 p.m. Nasdaq trading, while EchoStar slid 1.1 percent to $19.30 and sister company Dish Network Corp. fell 2.7 percent to $19.10.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 7, 2010 at 4:45 pm PT
Despite serious interest from Apple and Google, the market of Internet-connected televisions is still up for grabs, said former chief executive of Sling Media Blake Krikorian in an interview Wednesday.
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Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's in News on March 4, 2010 at 1:30 pm PT
TiVo shares are rocketing higher after a federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling which found found DISH Network and Echostar in contempt of a previous ruling which found infringement of TiVo’s DVR patents.
John Paczkowski in News on September 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT
It’s not the $974.5 million TiVo had been looking for, but the $200 million in sanctions against EchoStar’s Dish Network the company has been awarded isn’t exactly petty cash, either. On Friday, a U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Texas ordered the satellite broadcaster to cough up that sum for its continued infringement of TiVo’s “multimedia time warping system” patent.
John Paczkowski in News on September 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT
It’s not the $974.5 million TiVo had been looking for, but the $200 million in sanctions against EchoStar’s Dish Network the company has been awarded isn’t exactly petty cash, either. On Friday, a U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Texas ordered the satellite broadcaster to cough up that sum for its continued infringement of TiVo’s “multimedia time warping system” patent.
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Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's in News on July 2, 2009 at 5:50 am PT
TiVo shares this morning are heading lower after the company said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has granted a request by EchoStar to stay a contempt order imposed by a lower court pending the outcome of EchoStar’s appeal in the the patent dispute between the two companies.
