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Nintendo Ends Trade Fight Over Wii Video-Game System (Update1)
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| Nintendo Co., the maker of the top- selling Wii video-game console, settled a
| U.S. trade fight that could have resulted in a U.S. import ban of the popular
| gaming systems.
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| Nintendo and Hillcrest Laboratories Inc. filed a notice with the U.S.
| International Trade Commission on Aug. 21 that they reached a settlement of
| patent-infringement claims before the agency. Financial details were blacked
| out in the copy of the agreement made available to the public.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aAglvb3vyk38
TiVo sues AT&T, Verizon over DVR patents
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| TiVo said Wednesday that it is suing AT&T and Verizon over three DVR patents.
| The complaints seek damages and a permanent injunction.
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| Simply put, TiVo is pursuing the same legal playbook it followed against
| Dish/EchoStar. The patents in question include 6,233,389, 7,529,465 and
| 7,493,015.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10318899-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
TiVo is a leech.
Recent:
TiVo's rebound
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| Off and on for the past six years I've been an armchair quarterback for TiVo
| telling them they should do anything and everything to become profitable,
| among other things: they should offer pay-per-view downloads (I asked for
| this in 2002), they should broker deals with cable companies, that they
| should release software for PCs, that they should move to international
| markets, and that while I'm not a fan of software patents in general I feel
| the TiVo patents are original and worth fighting.
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| What I realized this week is that TiVo has spent the past couple years
| starting battles on all these fronts, and it looks like (at least to this
| outside observer) like TiVo is winning on all fronts. Even as their CEO
| admits more people are using DVRs and skipping lots of ads, I'd say TiVo is
| doing well.
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http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2008/10/tivos-rebound.html
DirecTV Strikes Deal to Offer TiVo Recorder
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| Another change is that TiVo won a key lawsuit against Dish Networks. In that
| lawsuit, a federal court ruled that Dishâs recording devices infringe TiVo
| software patents. In fact, a hearing begins Thursday in federal district
| court in the Eastern District of Texas on how the penalties against Dish will
| be enforced.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/directtv-strikes-deal-to-offer-tivo-recorder/
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