Appeals Court Review Granted in TiVo/DISH Suit

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A federal appeals court has granted DISH Network a full-court review of a ruling it lost to TiVo that would have required it to halt its DVR service.

DVR manufacturer TiVo has been engaged in a long-running legal dispute with DISH. It sued, and won, over patent infringement in DISH’s DVRs. It then won a ruling to make DISH stop offering its DVRs to customers—even though the platform said it had redesigned the boxes to no longer infringe on TiVo’s patents. According to reports, TiVo claims to be entitled to some $300 million in damages, as well as additional payments for the continued infringement of its DVR technology.

TiVo has filed similar patent infringement suits against AT&T and Verizon’s FiOS.

DISH, announcing the granting of the "en banc" review, said: "We believe the issues that will be considered by the full court on rehearing will have a profound impact on innovation in the United States for years to come."

TiVo, in response to the news, said: "We are disappointed that we do not yet have finality in this case despite years of litigation but we remain confident that the Federal Circuit’s ruling in our favor will be reaffirmed after all of the judges on the Federal Circuit have had the opportunity to review the merits of this case."