The United States Supreme Court denied EchoStar's petition to review the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruling that upheld a judgment of patent infringement, award of damages and a permanent injunction against EchoStar's infringing DVR products earlier this year.

The ruling from January of this awarded Tivo more than $94 million: $73,991,964 was awarded in April of 2006. More than $21 million were added as interest until January of this year and Tivo said that it now expects to be awarded “further damages from EchoStar's continued infringement of [the company’s] Time Warp patent."
 
The ruling also prevents Echostar, which also owns Sling Media, from selling its own digital video recorders.  Echostar previously announced that it as a comparable substitute, which means that existing DVR subscribers will be unaffected.