TiVo scored a major victory in its lawsuit against Dish Network and EchoStar. Dish Network maintained it had made a "herculean effort" to redesign its product to avoid infringing on TiVo's patents, but the court didn't buy it. Service providers are "struggling to develop a solution that's quite as intuitive as TiVo has turned out to be," said Parks Associates' Kurt Scherf.
Indeed, service providers are "struggling to develop a solution that's quite as intuitive as TiVo has turned out to be," Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times.
As a result, "it seems like TiVo still has lots of room to license its intellectual property into the service provider community," he noted.
The ruling, then, "reinforces the fact that Tivo has a good direction going in terms of its ability to license the technology," Scherf added. "The courts are basically saying that service providers can't do it on their own."
From the article, "Court Sees DVR Case TiVo's Way" by Katherine Noyes
