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5 Mar 7:45 pm
Mark Jackson, president of EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ:SATS), doesn't have an engineering degree from Texas Tech, as had been claimed in
numerous filings and public relations pieces. The fake degree was also listed in an annual report for ArchosSA, a French maker of portable music and video players. The company's
explanation? It was a "clerical" error. (Over [...]
29 Nov, 2007 6:26 am
... an $89.6 million patent- infringement verdict won by TiVo. The decision ``clearly represents a reinforcement that the appeals process with EchoStar should result in a favorable outcome for TiVo,'' Fred Moran, an analyst at Stanford Group in Boca Raton, Florida, said ... all the claims of its
'time warp patent' to be valid after conducting a re-examination at the request of EchoStar Communications Corp. (...) 'Today's decision
by the PTO brings us another step closer to ending EchoStar's continued ...
30 Aug, 2006 6:11 am
... patent after a jury trial and was assessed $89 million in damages. In the meantime, EchoStar retaliated by countersuing TiVo. In turn, TiVo
filed ex partes reexamination requests ... partes reexamination of the '685 patent, and followed these requests with a motion to stay. EchoStar
opposed the motion on four grounds: (1) TiVo's reexamination requests were ... upon reissue, the burden of proving invalidity is "made heavier") (quoting Interconnect Planning
Corp. v. Feil, 774 F.2d 1132, 1139 (Fed.Cir.1985 ...
11 Jul, 2006 4:47 pm
As seen on Rocky Mountain News: EchoStar Communications Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite-TV provider, sued fiber-optic equipment maker
Finisar Corp., asking a court to rule it doesn't infringe a patent for a system to organize satellite-data transmissions. EchoStar,
based in Douglas County, claimed yesterday in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, that Finisar may file its own suit over the patent.
9 Mar, 2007 2:08 pm
The Federal Circuit's landmark ruling in In re EchoStar Comm. Corp held that EchoStar's
reliance on in-house counsel acted as a waiver of certain attorney-client privelege protections. District courts have reacted to the ruling in a variety of ways.
8 Dec, 2006 5:29 am
Among all of the speculation on what might be in store for DirecTV if a controlling stake is transferred to Liberty Media Corp., one of the most tantalizing has been the prospect
of a merger with satellite rival EchoStar Communications. The New York Times reported yesterday that News Corporation is close to inking a deal
[...]
26 Jan, 2007 7:05 am
... be briefed for en banc consideration: Should a party's assertion of the advice of counsel defense to willful infringement extend waiver of the attorney-client privilege to
communications with that party's trial counsel? See In re EchoStar Commc'n Corp., 448 F.3d 1294 (Fed. Cir. 2006). What is the effect of
any such waiver on work-product immunity? Given the impact of the statutory duty of care standard announced in Underwater Devices, Inc. ...
29 Jan, 2007 1:23 am
... the following questions en banc: (1) Should a party's assertion of the advice of counsel defense to willful infringement extend waiver of the attorney-client privilege to
communications with that party's trial counsel? See In re EchoStar Commc'n Corp., 448 F.3d 1294 (Fed. Cir. 2006). (2) What is the effect
of any such waiver on work-product immunity? (3) Given the impact of the statutory duty of care standard announced in ...
6 Oct, 2008 3:23 pm
The San Francisco Chronicle reported: TiVo's patent battle with Dish Network Corp. turned in favor of the Alviso company Monday [Oct. 6, 2008] when the Supreme Court declined to
take up Dish Network's appeal, forcing the satellite television company to pay $104 million in damages.
26 Jun 6:55 am
... by Zusha Elinson of The Recorder appearing at Law.com: As the make-or-break patent trial between Tivo Inc. and EchoStar Corp. got
under way in Marshall, Texas, Tivo's top brass had an idea: Let's buy a cow. It was late March in 2006, and that meant it was time for Farm ... to use for college. They named it Tivo.
Two weeks later, on April 13, the Marshall jury found EchoStar (now known as DISH Network) guilty of infringing Tivo's "time warp" patent, used
in technology ...
26 Jun 11:06 am
IP Trial Strategy: Buying Tivo's Bull Zusha Elinson The Recorder June 26, 2009 getNumber('1202431771710') As the make-or-break patent trial between Tivo Inc. and EchoStar Corp. got under way in Marshall, Texas, Tivo's top brass had an idea: Let's buy a ... out in the community like that," he says. Two weeks
later, on April 13, the Marshall jury found EchoStar (now known as DISH Network) guilty of infringing Tivo's "time warp" patent, used in
technology that lets ...
6 Aug 4:48 am
The following is excerpted from an Associated Press August 5, 2009 article at Forbes: Dish Network Corp. said Tuesday that it has received an initial favorable ruling related to
its patent fight with TiVo Inc. The satellite TV operator, and sister company EchoStar Corp., said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
has rejected TiVo's software claims that lay at the heart of their lawsuit. The patent fight revolves around TiVo's "time-warp" technology, ...
13 Oct, 2008 12:12 pm
... company (Law360) Contact lens patent at centre of dispute between CIBA Vision Corp and Rembrandt Vision Technologies found to be invalid for obviousness after re-examination
( ... 3M sues Broadband Products over connector patents (Law360) Acacia Research Corp - Adobe Systems sues Acacia asking for declaratory judgment of noninfringement related to
patent ... over Psystar's Open Computer Mac 'clone' (Ars Technica) Echostar - Court blocks Echostar's
effort to subpoena Coolsat customer data in DMCA case ...
30 May, 2006 7:00 pm
... group that found that 77 stations broadcast video features about products from 49 companies, including General Motors Corp., Intel Corp. and Pfizer Inc., without
disclosing that they were produced by public relations firms. 6. Chairman ... providing distant network signals to hundreds of thousands of households that could receive local station
signals over the air, EchoStar had engaged in a pattern or practice of infringing the rights of local stations. The court remanded the case to
the district ...
31 Jan, 2007 12:42 pm
... , February 23, 2007. The agenda is not yet available. III. Antitrust Agency Activity/Deal Announcements News Corp. Files for Transfer of DIRECTV. On January 29, News
Corp. ... 550 million in cash. In return, Liberty has agreed to give up its stake in News Corp. and will abide by the program access and RSN conditions that were
established when News ... to Hear Distant Networks Case. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear EchoStar's appeal over Judge William
Dimitrouleas' decision to block distant network ...
6 Oct, 2008 2:25 pm
... the Federal Circuit agreed with a lower court that digital video recorders distributed by Dish, formerly known as EchoStar Communications
Corp., violated the software elements of Alviso, CA-based TiVo's patent. The ruling overturned the lower court's finding that Dish also infringed on the patent's hardware
elements. TiVo sued back in 2004, alleging that EchoStar, a satellite broadcaster, infringed on TiVo's patented technology that allows viewers
to record one program while watching another. ...
22 Sep, 2007 10:01 am
... -client privilege did not give rise to an adverse inference of willful infringement. In the latest case addressing this issue, In re Echostar Communications Corp. 448 F.3d 1294 (Fed. Cir. 2006), however, the court seemed to move in the ... for all of its counsel, including trial
counsel. This fear turned out to be justified, as the district courts responded to Echostar. Some courts ordered that the privilege was waived
as to trial counsel, as did the district court in Seagate, while others found ...
31 Jan, 2008 8:17 am
... open-ended ntecedent "comprising." See, e.g., Abtox, Inc. v. Exitron Corp., 122 F.3d 1019, 1023 (Fed. Cir. 1997). However, the question ... is treated as singular or plural
depends heavily on the context of its use. See Norian Corp. v. Stryker Corp., 432 F.3d 1356, 1359 (Fed. Cir. 2005). ... which it was initially received by the system, as a
single stream of data. Accordingly, we agree with EchoStar that the claim would be interpreted by one having ordinary skill in the art to
require the reassembly ...
11 May, 2006 9:53 am
... waiver that necessarily flows from a defendant's disclosure that he relied on advice given by counsel. In In re Echostar Communications
Corp., Misc. Nos. 803, 805 (Fed. Cir. May 1, 2006), defendant Echostar asserted, in ... -client privilege and attorney work-product
immunity as to all communications from any counsel on that subject, whether or not it was communicated to Echostar. That last italicized bit is
important, because, remember, the "advice of counsel" defense goes to the defendant's state ...
4 Oct, 2007 8:06 pm
... likely to rule at least partly in favor of TiVo Inc. in its patent dispute with EchoStar Communications Corp. EchoStar is seeking to overturn a lower court decision last year that ruled ... pause, rewind and fast forward live television shows. Donald Dunner,
EchoStar's lawyer, argued before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that the trial court ... construed TiVo's patent too broadly.
EchoStar's technology differs from TiVo's in several respects and therefore doesn't infringe its patent, Dunner ...
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