Dish Network Wants Replay on TiVo Patent Ruling
Satellite-TV Operator Asks Federal Appeals Court to Rehear Dispute with DVR Vendor
By B&C Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/18/2008 7:51:00 AM
Satellite-TV operator Dish Network filed a petition Monday asking a federal appeals court to rehear its patent dispute with digital-video-recorder manufacturer TiVo.
Dish, formerly known as EchoStar Communications, claimed that the United States Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit relied on inaccurate testimony from a TiVo witness when it affirmed in January an earlier lower-court ruling that Dish’s DVRs violated the software elements of TiVo’s patent.
The January ruling upheld the lower court’s award of $94 million in damages to TiVo.
