Tivo Gets $215 Million Patent Settlement From AT&T 93
symbolset writes "Slashgear is reporting that Tivo has achieved a settlement in their patent lawsuit with AT&T. Tivo will receive the minimum sum of $215 million over six years — more if AT&T DVR subscribers go above a certain level. This settles a patent dispute going back to 2009 and has been covered here with some side issues. Confirmed by Tivo press release."
DVR Patent Wars (Score:3, Informative)
Re:DirecTV again? (Score:5, Informative)
Maybe you missed it. http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/06/directvs-tivo-ready-to-return-december-8th-in-a-few-markets/ [engadget.com]
What!? Patent Litigation actually serving justice? (Score:4, Informative)
In this day and age of overly broad patents and frivolous lawsuits, this case decision is actually justified.
TiVo was THE first to develop and market the DVR way back when it you would "TiVo" your favorite shows instead of using that piece of modern archeology called a VCR. Soon after TiVo's initial success, the knock-off competitiors really diminished the TiVo's success.
I even like that they get a bump in cash payments when AT&T gets more subscribers.
Now if some company would come along and make it easy for me to off load my recordings to my personal harddisk we would have fully replaced the VCRs capabilities. I hate losing my recordings if my STB goes out and simple storage expansion would be nice.