Douglas County-based Dish Network Corp. said it’s developing “potential” design-around technology that would avoid infringing on a patent of TiVo Inc. as the company tries to stop a federal judge from ordering a shutdown of its service.
Dish, the second-biggest U.S. satellite-television provider, and EchoStar Corp. “identified” options to avoid infringement, company lawyers said in a letter Friday to U.S. District Judge David Folsom in Texarkana, Texas.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had put on hold Folsom’s June 2 order that Dish and EchoStar shut down the digital-video-recording service until an appeal is decided.
EchoStar runs the digital-set- top-box-manufacturing and satellite-services businesses that were part of Dish before the companies split.
Dish already faces contempt sanctions for continuing to infringe on a TiVo patent after being ordered to stop providing DVR service. Dish had argued it altered the service to work around the patent, though Folsom disagreed last month.
