TiVo, EchoStar Head to Court

- Text of “Multi-Media Time Warping Patent” in Dispute
- One Paragraph Summary of TiVo’s Complaint
TiVo and EchoStar Communications headed to a Texas courtroom Wednesday to argue over TiVo’s claim that EchoStar’s Dish Network infringed on TiVo’s patent on a “multimedia time-warping system,” the time-shifting technology inside the digital video recorder maker’s set-top boxes. It will be a jury trial. EchoStar’s countersuit is not scheduled for trial until next year.

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