Dish Loses ClearPlay Patent Lawsuit

[nelson61]

It has not been a good month for Dish.
First the hackers and now a $469 million adverse verdict for ad skipping technology.
Dish expected to appeal.

Dish hit with $469 million verdict over commercial-skipping technology

Dish Network LLC must pay $469 million for infringing two patents held by parental-control technology maker ClearPlay Inc related to filtering material from streaming video, a jury in U.S. federal court in Utah has decided.

www.reuters.com

 

[DishSubLA]

Every big company gets these patents suits and win or lose, after appeals. Cost of doing business. ClearPlay could settle for the same or smaller amount in a settlement for money NOW that could likely net them MORE money in the long run by saving lawyers and legal fees if they really appeal, and the glacial TIME it all requires. Of course ClearPlay may still owe its lawyers, or are the lawyers working Pro Bono? I would advise ClearPlay to take the judgement money and RUN, and stop spending money, that as a company (although zealots may be funding the legal fight) they don't have. "Don't get greedy" is good moral advice for ClearPlay.

TiVo decided to take Dish's settlement offer rather than appeal when it was ruled a whole new trial was needed to determine "Offending DVR's" were, in fact, offending, after the Dish "work-around" rather than spend more money and time TiVo was greatly running out of by waiting for SCOTUS to decide if they would even the hear the ruling (certain NOT to, IMHO) of the Circuit Court regarding the work-around and the requirement of a whole new trial who also admonished that well-known Texas patent judge in the TiVo vs Echostar trial (hear the woodshed in action). That last part was of particular delight to me as that trial judge had always been working a scam court for the financial benefit of the businesses in his town, and nothing more. Even the late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia referred to him as that "Rouge Judge in Texas."