TiVo Time Warp DVR Patent Upheld
By Geoff Duncan
November 30, 2007
In a move that strengthens TiVo's position in its long-running patent dispute with EchoStar, federal regulators have upheld the validity of TiVo's "time warp" DVR patent.
In a development that will help TiVo's long-running patent dispute with satellite TV operator EchoStar, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a unappealable, final finding that TiVo's "Time Warp" patent (6,233,389) is valid and enforceable.
"We are extremely pleased that the PTO has now found all claims of the Time Warp Patent to be valid after conducting a reexamination of the patent requested by EchoStar," said TiVo in a statement. "Today's decision by the PTO brings us another step closer to ending EchoStar's continued infringement and we are hopeful that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will uphold the district court judgment of patent infringement and reinstate the injunction."
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