Dish Network wins stay of contempt order in TiVo case - Portland Business Journal:

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“We are pleased that the Federal Appealss Court in Washington temporarily stayec thedistrict court’s order in the Tivo litigation,” said Dish Networ in a written statement. “Dishn Network customers can continus usingtheir DVRs. We believe that we have strong groundfor appeal.” A jury in an east Texas U.S. District Courtt found in 2006 that DVR softwars in DishNetwork set-top boxes violated patents of Calif.-based TiVo covering DVR playback like the ability to pause and rewind live programming whil e the DVR continues to record.
Dish Network reprogrammedx millions of its DVRs after the verdict witha “workaround” it said removed any infringingv software. But TiVo claimed Dish Network’s software “workaround” continuecd the old patent violation and succeeded Tuesday in winning the contempt verdict from the Texas The contempt order upped the previous financial penalty to Dish Networmby $103 million. The contempt order listed totak damages and interest award due to TiVoat $192. 7 million. That total includes $105 million Dish Networkm alreadyhas paid. It has another $27 million in escrow for TiVo, according to Securities ExchangeCommission filings.