TiVo Gets $200 million Fron Dish

Dish Network has been ordered to pay about $200 million to TiVo over DVR technology.
The lawsuit goes back to 2004, when TiVo sued EchoStar (now a part of the Dish Network) for violating a patent on a "multimedia time-warping system," which involved recording a program while watching another.
A jury in 2006 found that Dish's dvr infringed upon a patent held by TiVo and ordered it to pay TiVo $73.9 million. The ruling has been upheld in two separate federal appeals. Dish has said its engineers updated its software years ago to design around TiVo's patent and that they removed the features TiVo claims infringe on its patent. Dish was ordered to pay another $103 million plus interest to TiVo in June for being in contempt of court for violating a permanent injunction on selling DVRs with infringing technology,Then TiVo sued for nearly $1 billion and claimed it was due all of Dish's DVR profits for the five-plus years. Instead, U.S. District Judge David Folsom in Texarcana, Texas, awarded TiVo just under $200 million in total, saying the infringement wasn't willful and that Dish has made a good faith effort to design around the TiVo patent.