GigabyteFan

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday granted a request by Dish Network and EchoStar to review a previous ruling regarding the Tivo Vs. Dish Network patent litigation.  Most see this as a temporary victory for Dish allowing them the ability to continue fighting through the appeal process.

At stake if Tivo wins, not only would Dish need to pay the judgement against them which is now in the hundreds of millions of dollars range with increases thanks to interest …  but the real bite comes in the form of a mandatory shutdown of all Dish/Echostar DVR’s unless they pay a license fee to Tivo.