18 Aug 2006
TiVo gets injunction against EchoStar

Picture the headline in 1920 - "Ford Gets Injunction Against General Motors", in which Ford claimed all ownership of the intellectual concept of "automobile", and won.

Mercifully, we didn't have such screwed up courts or laws back then.

But more importantly, entrepreneurs of the day weren't so litigious, either:

[lawsuits] provide opportunities for little minds to usurp the gains of genuine innovators and under the smug protest of righteousness, work a hold-up game in the most approved fashion.
-- Henry Ford

AP - TiVo Inc. said Friday that a court ruled against EchoStar Communications Corp., saying it must halt the manufacture and sale of its DVR products in the U.S., and ordered it to pay more than $89 million in damages to the digital video recorder maker.

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