Dish wins stay from Appeals Court on DVR order
FROM MCN: Court schedules case in TiVo litigation for as soon as November
By Todd Spangler of Multichannel News -- Video Business, 7/2/2009
JULY 2 | FROM MCN: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday granted Dish Network's motion to stay a lower court's order that would have forced the satellite TV operator to disable millions of DVRs that infringe on a key TiVo patent.
On June 2, a Texas district court ruled that Dish's proposed workaround for TiVo's Time Warp DVR patent continued to infringe the patent. Dish was ordered to disable some 4 million DVR receivers within 30 days and to pay TiVo another $103 million plus interest. Dish immediately appealed the decision and the Federal Appeals Court granted a temporary stay.
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