Dish Network to pay TiVo $104 million + interest

Don Day October 7th, 2008

Dish Network is about to transfer a huge chunk of change to TiVo, Inc. It’s not a new partnership or a stock swap - instead Dish has to pay $104 million plus interest for patent infringement. TiVo won this case several years ago - then lost a long series of appeals. The US Supreme Court refused to hear the case, meaning Dish will be force to fork over the cash. Dish has already found a workaround to its previous patent infringement, so customers won’t be affected.

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