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WASHINGTON — TiVo Inc. urged a U.S. appeals court to stop Douglas County- based Dish Network Corp. from providing digital video-recording services, saying it’s losing business while Dish profits from the use of a TiVo invention.
Dish was ordered to halt the service after a federal judge said June 2 that changes to the system weren’t enough to work around a TiVo patent. Dish was given a temporary reprieve while it appeals.
TiVo said it’s waited long enough since winning a 2006 trial and first appeal. “The right to exclude conferred by TiVo’s patent is empty if it can never be enforced,” TiVo said in a filing Wednesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington.
