TiVo Inc. v. EchoStar Corp.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ( 2004 - 2011)
Parties :
1-The Plaintiff : TIVO , INC
2- The Defendant : EchoStar Communications Corporation and it’s consortium(Echostar DBS Corporation, Echostar Technologies Corporation, Echosphere Limited Liability Company, and EchoStar Satellite LLC )
Case Introduction Brief :
This case is about tivo company (a developer and provider of software and technology that enables the search, navigation, and access of content across sources, including linear television, on-demand television, and broadband video) which has invented a revolutionary DVR(digital video recorder) device into the market March, 1999 , so in January, 2004 – TiVo files a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against EchoStar for infringing on TiVo’s ‘389 patent. on which this patent DVR technology enables television users to "time-shift" television signals, that is, to record a television program in digital format and enable the user to replay, pause, fast forward, or reverse while the program is playing on the user's television set. The technology enables time shifting both for previously recorded programs and for programs that are currently being recorded . so later the first court judgement where in favor of tivo , then after that EchoStar makes trivial changes to its software and continues its infringement ,then they appeal , and goes for a patent examination and extend the case to the supreme court .
Procedure :
-On April, 2006 A jury in the Eastern District of Texas finds EchoStar had willfully infringed on
TiVo’s patent claims, and awards TiVo...
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...ogy patent ) as we see from the facts above , that it had changed it features and redesign then it went for the appeal and also filled complaint against tivo the main plaintiff in this case
Rule :
The district court has confirmed the plaintiff claims ,because of a failure of proof of literal infringement, we reverse the judgment of infringement of the hardware claims with respect to all of the accused devices. We remand for any further proceedings that may be necessary with respect to those claims. We affirm the judgment of infringement of the software claims with respect to all of the accused devices. Because the damages calculation at trial was not predicated on the infringement of particular claims, and because we have upheld the jury's verdict that all of the accused devices infringe the software claims, we affirm the damages award entered by the district court
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