TiVo is appealing a federal judge’s order upholding...
TiVo is appealing a federal judge’s order upholding a $3.2 million arbitration award against the company in a case tied to the so-called time-warp patent it used to strike settlements with AT&T, EchoStar and Verizon. It filed an appeal Friday…
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with the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, seeking to reverse U.S. District Court Judge Louis Stanton’s, New York, decision denying TiVo’s motion to vacate an arbitration award made to Eric Goldwasser and his daughter, Romi. The Goldwassers and their company, Good Inventions, were issued a patent in 1993 describing what is generally considered as the first DVR with the ability to record one program while another is being watched. The so-called Goldwasser patent expired in March 2011. But TiVo, which licensed it from the inventors, has used it to reach a $500 million settlement with EchoStar as well as agreements with AT&T and Verizon that brought in $214 million and $250 million (CD Sept 25 p10).