Comments on: Appeals court agrees Dish DVR infringed on TiVo patent

Federal court upholds lower court award of $89.6 million in damages for violation of TiVo's patent on digital video recorders. Dish plans to appeal.

[sismoc]

Bogus Patents == BS Awards

The patent system is broke. Nothing TiVo patented was new, unique or non-obvious. But, to a techno-idiot judge or jury it seems like magic and therefore must be patentable.

[gsacks]

Your are right...and wrong

Yes, the patent system is broken. It gives too much protection for too long a time period, and many patents are granted that are too broad and they should be dismissed out-of-hand. But this is not an example of that broken-ness. If there was even a Patent case that should have been upheld, this was it. Tivo DID invent the DVR and the case was not even about DVRs in general, but about specifics in the Tivo software that DISH copied.