New Rules: Dish/EchoStar May Owe TiVo $200 Million+

There is more bad news for Dish Network and its controlling company, EchoStar, concerning the satellite distributor's dispute with digital video recording technology company TiVo. Now a new court order will force Dish/EchoStar to pay TiVo $200 million in additional damage payments should Dish/EchoStar lose its appeal to TiVo. Back in June, a U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas jury granted TiVo $103 million plus interest. TiVo originally wanted $1 billion in sanctions as part of a multi-year legal process, in which it won a lawsuit against Dish for illegally using TiVo DVR technology in Dish's DVR home units. The courts ruled that the technology used by Dish to get around TiVo's patents was not sufficiently different.