EchoStar doesn’t believe it infringed on any TiVo patents, a spok...
EchoStar doesn’t believe it infringed on any TiVo patents, a spokesman said after TiVo said Mon. had filed suit against EchoStar charging it had violated the “Time Warp” patent that allows users to pause live TV (CD Jan 6…
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p8). The spokesman didn’t say whether EchoStar planned to file a countersuit, but said the company “intend[s] to defend vigorously against the lawsuit.” Separately, An EchoStar spokesman confirmed reports that the company had sued Viacom in U.S. Dist. Court, San Francisco, over CBS rebroadcast rights, including coverage of the Super Bowl Feb. 1. But he said the companies had reached a temporary agreement to continue negotiations through next week. EchoStar said Viacom had conditioned the agreement on EchoStar’s carriage of additional programming. “We consider that to be TV extortion, saying we [can’t run] the Super Bowl… unless we agree to carry other channels. We think that’s part of the public airwaves at this point,” the spokesman said. The company is pleased that an agreement was reached for additional negotiation time, he said: “It should allow us to hold meaningful conversations.” An industry official said it was unlikely EchoStar timed the filing of its lawsuit to coincide with DirecTV’s announcement that it had reached an agreement with CBS (CD Jan 8 p10).