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: Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

Court Orders Dish To Pay TiVo $200 Million In Patent Case

By Philip Brooks

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The following is excerpted from a September 4, 2009 article by Todd Spangler at Multichannel News:

A Texas federal judge on Friday ordered Dish Network to pay about $200 million in damages and contempt sanctions to TiVo, finding that the harm suffered by TiVo by the satellite operator's continued infringement of a key DVR patent is "substantial."

That brings the total damages and sanctions Dish and EchoStar Technologies have been ordered to pay TiVo to approximately $400 million through July 1, 2009.

TiVo had requested at least $974.5 million in sanctions from Dish and EchoStar, which TiVo estimated was the amount of DVR profit it made from April 18, 2008, to July 28, 2009.

In the ruling Friday, Folsom calculated the award based on $2.25 per Dish DVR subscriber per month during the contempt period, a rate that includes the jury's rate of $1.25 to compensate TiVo for EchoStar's "continued infringement" and an additional $1.00 sanction to "promote EchoStar's compliance with this court's orders."

Read the full article here.

Full post as published by Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates on September 06, 2009 (boomark / email).