[opendtv] TiVo Faces Patent-Infringement Countersuits By AT&T, Verizon
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 01:14:36 -0400
TiVo Faces Patent-Infringement Countersuits By AT&T, Verizon
Telcos Cite Their Own Patent Porfolios in Complaints
By Todd Spangler
Multichannel News
3/31/2010
The telcos have struck back: AT&T and Verizon Communications have
separately filed countersuits against TiVo -- which previously sued
both telcos over patents -- alleging the DVR company is infringing
their intellectual property.
The countersuits were detailed in TiVo's 10-K annual report filed
Wednesday.
Separately, TiVo is awaiting the resolution of its six-year-old
litigation against Dish Network and EchoStar, which have been ordered
to pay $300 million in damages and sanctions to the DVR company. Last
week, the Texas district court judge overseeing the case gave Dish an
extension until April 30 on a previously issued stay on the
injunction ordering the satellite TV operator to disable infringing
DVRs.
Perhaps emboldened by a legal victory over Dish and EchoStar last
summer, TiVo filed separate lawsuits in August 2009 against AT&T and
Verizon.
TiVo argued that the DVRs provided with AT&T's U-verse TV and
Verizon's FiOS TV infringed three TiVo patents: U.S. Patent Nos.
6,233,389 B1 ("Multimedia Time Warping System") -- the one that Dish
and EchoStar were found to have violated -- as well as 7,529,465 B2
("System for Time Shifting Multimedia Content Streams") and 7,493,015
B1 ("Automatic Playback Overshoot Correction System").
Now TiVo is the target of countersuits from AT&T and Verizon.
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http://www.multichannel.com/article/450916-TiVo_Faces_Patent_Infringement_Countersuits_By_AT_T_Verizon.php
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