TiVo wins Pause Technology patent suit

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TiVo wins Pause Technology patent suit

Good news for TiVo today as they won a patent suit against Pause Technology. Pause Technology has a patent on the functionality of pausing TV, buffering live TV, and catching up to live by fast-forwarding. It sounds pretty close to what TiVo does, but a judge sided against Pause. It'll be interesting to see how well TiVo does in its own patent suits against other DVR manufacturers. [thanks Scott!]

by Matt Haughey February 11, 2004 in TiVo

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I have a Mitsibishi TV that has pause technology. I bought this puppy back in 1996 and the model was several years old at the time.

How long does Pause Technology claim to own the patent? Maybe they should also go after Mitsibishi.

Posted by: dclal at Feb 11, 2004 6:46:00 PM

oops [virtual edit] Mitsubishi

Posted by: dclal at Feb 11, 2004 6:47:16 PM

I find it interesting that nobody was up in arms after hearing about how TiVo was able to determine that during the Janet Jackson Superbowl debacle, that TiVo users everywhere were rewinding over and over again. I was unaware that TiVo is able to act as a BIG BROTHER to us, and keeps track/logs everything we do with our remotes. Is it only me? Why didn't anyone else/news media pick up on this?

Posted by: Pauly D at Feb 17, 2004 11:33:15 PM

these silly-ass patents for software are in 98% of the cases completely ridiculous. The implementations are in most cases totally obvious, and in some cases the only way to do the task in question. The flunkies at the patent offices are only interested in collecting their ca$h....

Posted by: Charlie O. at Mar 14, 2005 8:06:23 PM

TiVo wins Pause Technology patent suit

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