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TiVo Wins Patent Infringement Case Against Echostar
Categories: Decisions • Patents
- Jury Verdict Form Part 1
- Jury Verdict Form Part 2
After deliberating for about two hours (including a cigarette break), a Texas jury awarded TiVo $73,991,964 in lost profits and royalty damages. The award was less than the $87M TiVo sought. The jurors thought TiVo had not done everything it could to protect its patent. The patent was granted in 2001, but the jurors calculated the damage award starting in January 2, 2002, when TiVo started clearly marking its products with patent notices. As the jury found Echostar willfully infringed, the judge could treble the damage award. Echostar is vowing to appeal. TiVo has said it will next seek an permanent injunction. TiVo will no doubt be seeking license fees from both PVR manufactures such as Moxi, Microsoft, Cisco/Scientific Atlanta, Motorola and NDS, and U.S.-based cable companies using competitive PVRs such as Time Warner, Cox, Charter and Cablevision.
Sources: Fox News | USA Today (AP) | Bloomberg | CNet | MarketWatch | ars technica | Bloomberg | San Jose Mercury News | Business Week | L.A. Times | TiVo Press Release | Echostar Press Release | Red Herring | Oxford Press | PC Magazine | Link
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