TiVo Collects $104 Million From EchoStar EchoStar Pays Up After Supreme Court Declines Request to Review Infringement Ruling By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 10/9/2008 11:32:00 AM TiVo said it received $104.6 million from EchoStar on Oct. 8, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a lower court’s ruling that the satellite operator had infringed one of the DVR maker’s patents. TiVo said the $104,600,472 from EchoStar included the initial $74 million in damages awarded by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, after the satellite company was found to have infringed TiVo’s “Time Warp” patent for DVR controls, plus interest and supplemental damages accrued through Sept. 8, 2006. The companies are...
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