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A federal jury awarded TiVo Inc. more than $73 million in damages today in
a patent infringement lawsuit against EchoStar Communications Inc.
TiVo had sought $87 million in damages from the Dish satellite-TV network in a patent
dispute that TiVo lawyers said could be “life or death” for the company that sold the
first box for pausing and rewinding live television.
Lawyers for EchoStar, Dish’s parent, had countered in their closing arguments that the
company invented its own digital video recorder without TiVo technology. They said TiVo
is using EchoStar as an excuse for its own failure to compete against other makers of
set-top boxes.
TiVo, based in Alviso, Calif., has lost nearly $650 million in its short
history.
