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TiVo seeks halt to EchoStar’s digital video-recording business
By News wire reports
May 23, 2006
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_4720654,00.html
TiVo Inc., the pioneer in home digital-television recording, asked a U.S. judge to shut down the rival service offered by EchoStar Communications Corp.
TiVo won a jury verdict in April that EchoStar infringes a TiVo patent for products that let a viewer record one TV program while watching another. U.S. District Judge David Folsom, who presided over the trial in Texarkana, Texas, is to oversee a trial next month on whether the patent can be enforced.
"Each day EchoStar is allowed to continue its infringement, EchoStar takes subscribers that would otherwise be TiVo’s," TiVo wrote in a document available on the court’s Web site. "TiVo is a small company with essentially one product — its patented DVR technology. If TiVo cannot deliver this technology, its current business will fail."
TiVo, based in Alviso, California, has posted losses every year since going public in 1999. The company sells its DVR device directly to consumers and provides its service to DirecTV Group Inc., which is developing a competing digital video-recording service.
EchoStar, based in Englewood, Colorado, has vowed to challenge the jury verdict. It also will seek a ruling that the patent is unenforceable at the trial set for June 26 and 27.
EchoStar spokeswomen Heather Black and Kathie Gonzalez didn’t immediately return voicemail messages seeking comment.
By News wire reports
May 23, 2006
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_4720654,00.html
TiVo Inc., the pioneer in home digital-television recording, asked a U.S. judge to shut down the rival service offered by EchoStar Communications Corp.
TiVo won a jury verdict in April that EchoStar infringes a TiVo patent for products that let a viewer record one TV program while watching another. U.S. District Judge David Folsom, who presided over the trial in Texarkana, Texas, is to oversee a trial next month on whether the patent can be enforced.
"Each day EchoStar is allowed to continue its infringement, EchoStar takes subscribers that would otherwise be TiVo’s," TiVo wrote in a document available on the court’s Web site. "TiVo is a small company with essentially one product — its patented DVR technology. If TiVo cannot deliver this technology, its current business will fail."
TiVo, based in Alviso, California, has posted losses every year since going public in 1999. The company sells its DVR device directly to consumers and provides its service to DirecTV Group Inc., which is developing a competing digital video-recording service.
EchoStar, based in Englewood, Colorado, has vowed to challenge the jury verdict. It also will seek a ruling that the patent is unenforceable at the trial set for June 26 and 27.
EchoStar spokeswomen Heather Black and Kathie Gonzalez didn’t immediately return voicemail messages seeking comment.
