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Investor’s Business Daily is reporting that the jury in the TiVo vs. Echostar case has found in favor of TiVo! In addition, they have awarded TiVo more than $73 Million in damages. TiVo has released a press release about the decision and has said that they will seek a permanent injuction against Echostar’s (Dish Network) DVR products.

This is definitely good news for TiVo. While TiVo will probably never see any money from Echostar, if they can use this decision to pressure either Echostar or any other company into using TiVo DVR software instead of a generic DVR, this will mark a major turning point in the history of TiVo.

On the other hand, Echostar will of course appeal the decision and it even could be overturned on appeal. Echostar apparently has their own DVR patent lawsuit coming up sometime in 2007 against TiVo.

As I said before, TiVo will probably never see any money from this, but if they did I’m sure they could really use $73 Million Dollars. That would definitely be a nice addition to the old corporate coffers!

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