Federal Judge Delays Microsoft Lawsuit With TiVo To Re-Examine Patents
March 01 2011 - 6:31PM
Dow Jones News
A federal judge in California has granted TiVo Inc.'s (TIVO)
request to delay a patent-dispute lawsuit filed against it by
AT&T Inc. (T) pending a re-examination of AT&T's
patents.
In March 2010, AT&T sued the Alviso, Calif., maker of
digital video recorders, or DVRs, claiming its television
set-top-boxes infringed on AT&T patents for managing digital
recordings.
On Tuesday, Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong said that delaying the
proceedings until the United States Patent and Trademark Office
makes a ruling will narrow the issues at trial, according to a
court document.
AT&T declined to comment. TiVo Chief Executive Tom Rogers
acknowledged the court's ruling but did not elaborate on it.
The court's stay is the latest development in a series of
lawsuits between TiVo and other digital video recording device
makers, such as Dish Network Corp. (DISH), EchoStar Corp. (SATS)
and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI). TiVo is vulnerable
because the issues being disputed in the lawsuits are the
technologies at the core of its business.
In August 2009, TiVo filed lawsuits against AT&T and Verizon
Communications Inc. (VZ) alleging their digital video recorders
illegally used its "time-warp" feature. Separately, TiVo has sought
agreements with other companies, including Comcast Corp. (CMCSK,
CMCSA) and DirecTV Group Inc. (DTV).
TiVo shares were up 0.2% to $9.84 in after-hours trading while
AT&T shares slipped 0.2% to $28.02.
-By Ian Sherr and Roger Cheng, Dow Jones Newswires;
415-439-6455; ian.sherr@dowjones.com
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