Supreme Court Won't Review TiVo-EchoStar

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NEW YORK The United States Supreme Court has denied EchoStar’s petition to review a $74 million judgment against it and corporate sibling Dish Network for infringing on a TiVo DVR patent.

TiVo won its initial suit against EchoStar in April 2006, when a Federal District Court in Texas awarded it $32.7 million in lost profits and $41.3 million in royalties, after ruling that the satellite TV service violated TiVo’s “Time Warp” technology, a patented software that enables DVR users to record one program while watching another.

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