Expiration dates for the TIVO patents range from December 2015 to February 2020.
Scott- I know you began to get weak knees yesterday about Dish but you fell victim to all the totally false information that this suit references the VIP series which it does not. These TIVO fanboys are trying their best to to destroy Dish. I wonder if they are losers with TIVO stock or, are they just crazy and do this for personal hate reasons? Second, the case was ruled with a dissenting judge who made some compelling points, so while I never fully trust the courts to do justice all the time, I had to put what little faith I had that when you get more legal minds in authority, you will get better justice. Therefore the en banc would be approved. Now we wait to see the fate of those older DVRs. Neither you nor I are going to become victims on this because we have VIP's but my neighbor has one of the listed DVR's he has said he got a notice from Dish to swap out but hasn't responded. Dish knows this suit if it goes bad will affect just those older DVR's. Now finally, I have to observe the actions of the insiders in charge at TIVO and what I see is all of them are or rather have already cashed out. They don't believe they have a case! Now many who bought stock high will be losers unless the institutions begin a buy-up, unlikely unless they can convince their clients TIVO is a good investment those who remain better get out fast like the owners have done already.
The earlier observation that Dish stock hasn't really budged during all this is not exactly accurate. It has moved a little but to a much lesser degree because the issue will not affect Dishes bottom line significantly UNLESS, they are forced to lose a hugh number of customers. That will only happen if the VIP series is ordered shut down, leaving Dish with NO DVRs to supply their subscribers. Nobody except those who likely have ulterior motives posting on this forum are suggesting this to be the case or you'd see the Dish and SATS stock plummet like TIVO. The idea that the suit is open ended on the shutdown order is just silly.
The only thing that I look forward to is that Dish will now go in and begin their offer. They should not let this opportunity go. They now can bargain at a 40% discount. Will this affect the Dish stock? Not by much, I suspect as the world fears and and other factors seem to affect these stocks far more than company fundamentals.
Disclosure- I own Dish stock.