TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) had a great quarter—no surprise, since the numbers include a big chunk of the $500 million patent settlement it won from DISH Network and Echostar (NSDQ: SATS). The first payment propelled TiVo to a $139 million net profit, compared to a loss of $14.2 million in the…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) CEO Tom Rogers hailed the $500 million patent settlement with Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) as a historic day for the DVR company. The agreement, which is further explained in an 8-k filing on TiVo’s site, represents the “one of largest technology patent settlements of all time,” the…

The Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) had a number of things to cheer about in Q1. In addition to the $500 million patent settlement with TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), the satellite TV provider managed to reverse the subscriber losses it experienced over the last few quarters. Separately, Dish also said it was…

Following yet one more judicial strike against their case, sister companies Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) and Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) finally have admitted the need to get licenses for use of DVR technology patented by Tivo. The satellite distributor and technology companies will pay TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) $500 million over the…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) shares are up as much as 40 percent today, after an appeals court ruled in the company’s favor in its long-standing patent battle with Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) and Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH). The court upheld a lower court’s ruling in the company’s favor, saying that the satellite…

One thing practically every company involved in patent litigation can agree on is that it’s brutally expensive. The average cost to take a case through trial is $4 million to $5 million, and high-stakes disputes between big companies can easily run into the tens of millions. After beating EchoStar (NSDQ:…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has been fighting over its patents on DVR technology since 2004, but the campaign to get paid for those patents is getting tougher this year. Motorola (NYSE: MMI) sued TiVo on Friday, making a total of three operating companies that are pushing back against TiVo with patent…

Even as sales of its pioneering digital video recorder have continued to decline, TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has been using its patents to try to get licensing fees out of the big players in the DVR business. There have been various lawsuits and counter-suits, but the fundamental question is whether TiVo…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) is so confident about its ability to measure viewing of TV commercials that it’s giving the data away—sort of. The company has launched a website that allows you to check up on how effectively brands can hold onto ad-skipping viewers.

As CES has confirmed, the world has woken up to the potential of over-the-top TV. To which Tivo CEO Tom Rogers might say, what took everyone so long?

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) is probably the most famous name in the consumer digital video recorder market, but its market share—estimated to be around 8 percent of the DVR market last year—hardly reflects that anymore. Since cable and satellite companies started getting into the DVR business, TiVo has been steadily edged…

Hulu Plus is gaining two more ways to connect with potential subscribers: TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) and Roku are adding access to Hulu Plus through their devices. But Hulu Plus still needs an agreement with CBS (NYSE: CBS) and more current cable content for consumers to see as it a TV…

Cox Communications is allying with TiVo: The big cable company says it will bring its On Demand movie service, which provides subscribers with hundreds of movies they can watch, to TiVo’s Premiere DVR, which debuted in March. The two companies say the Premiere will be the “first retail product to…

A fresh blow for TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) in its ongoing patent battle with Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS). The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected TiVo’s claims to two patents the companies are battling over in federal appeals court. A federal court had ruled in TiVo’s favor in…

TiVo’s March court victory in its patent battle with Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) could be erased, as a federal appeals court has agreed to rehear the case. The pronouncement wasn’t unexpected. The legal fight, which has dragged on for six years, concerns whether the satellite companies infringed on TiVo’s…

Although TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) saw a healthy gain in revenues in Q4, the DVR company was unable to balance its growing costs and reduced subscriber additions. Nevertheless, TiVo has been riding high on some good news in the form of last week’s favorable legal decision, when two members of a…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) won another court round against Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) when two members of a three-judge federal court panel sided with a lower court ruling that the satellite companies are in contempt of a permanent injunction prohibiting infringement on its DVR patents. But the fight, ongoing in…

Six months after TiVo sued AT&T (NYSE: T) for patent infringement, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has entered the legal fray. In a filing, Microsoft asks to be a party in the suit because it says the case puts into question its Mediaroom software, which runs on set-top boxes that use AT&T’s…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) president and CEO Tom Rogers says he doesn’t run a DVR company…According to Rogers, TiVo is not a DVR hardware provider or even a software company, but a “television behavioral company at heart.” Rogers is now scrambling to convince cable operators — whose own DVRs have contributed…