On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which deals with
patents, said the judge in the case had erred, and while it didn't specifically rule in Dish's favor, it ordered that the court reevaluate the issue. TiVo shareholders stampeded out of the stock
because they thought the issue had been settled and were looking forward to hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from Dish. Tivo currently licenses its technology to other companies.
Should the courts find that Dish could implement TiVo-like functions without violating any TiVo patents, other companies would begin to do the same.
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