Dish Network wins stay of contempt order in TiVo case - Denver Business Journal:

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“We are pleased that the Federal Appeals Court in Washingtonb temporarily stayed thedistrict court’ss order in the Tivo litigation,” said Dish Networkk in a written “Dish Network customers can continue usingh their DVRs. We believew that we have strong grounds for A jury in an eastTexas U.S. Districgt Court found in 2006 that DVR softwarse in DishNetwork set-too boxes violated patents of Alviso, Calif.-based TiVo covering DVR playback like the ability to pause and rewindc live programming while the DVR continuess to record. Dish Network reprogrammed millions of its DVRs afte the verdict witha “workaround” it said removed any infringinh software.
But TiVo claimed Dish Network’ s software “workaround” continued the old patent violatioj and succeeded Tuesday in winning the contempt verdict from theTexas court. The contempt order upped the previous financial penalty to Dish Networkby $103 The contempt order listed total damages and interest award due to TiVo at $192.7 That total includes $105 million Dish Network already has paid. It has another $27 million in escrow for TiVo, according to Securities & Exchange Commissioj filings.