Bloomberg
TiVo Inc., the pioneer in digital video recording services, sued Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. claiming infringement of patents used in their DVR systems.
TiVo, in complaints filed today in federal court in Marshall, Texas, is seeking damages for past infringement and an order stopping the infringement, TiVo said in a statement. The company claims infringement of a so-called “time warp” patent and two others.
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