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Tivo wins in Echostar lawsuit appeal PDF Print E-mail
Consumer Electronics
By Mark Raby   
Thursday, January 31, 2008 15:17
Washington (DC) - A federal court has confirmed that cable provider Echostar infringed on Tivo's copyrights and must pay more than $90 million in damages.

Tivo had previously won its case in an earlier court ruling but Echostar appealed it to a court that specializes in patent lawsuits.  The court upheld the decision.

As a result, Echostar will be prohibited from selling its own digital video recorders as they are now.  Echostar said it already has a comparable substitute and therefore existing DVR subscribers will be unaffected.

Echostar also must pay $94 million in damages.  $73,991,964 of that is the court's actual ruling and the rest is interest.
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