Alviso, Calif. – A U.S. District Court on Tuesday lifted its stay
in an EchoStar patent-infringement lawsuit against
.
TiVo said the suit, which was originally brought by
on four patents, had been reduced to
one — the so-called ” ‘804 patent” concerning a multimedia direct-access
storage device and formatting method.
“EchoStar’s suit against TiVo has been narrowed to only the ‘804
patent, and TiVo remains confident that TiVo does not infringe any of the
remaining claims at issue,” TiVo said in a statement.
“We are pleased that the court granted our motion to lift the
stay in our patent-infringement action against Tivo,” read EchoStar’s statement
on the action. “The patent in this case withstood two re-exam petitions by Tivo
seeking to invalidate it. We look
forward to the trial.”
EchoStar first brought the suit in 2005 based on four patents
that EchoStar acquired from IBM after TiVo initiated its successful lawsuit
against EchoStar for EchoStar’s infringement of TiVo’s time-warp patent.
The lawsuit is separate from a patent-infringement lawsuit that
TiVo had brought against EchoStar, in which arguments about the contempt
judgment against EchoStar were presented to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit in November 2010.
