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Re: TiVo gains second judgment against Echostar Because our patent system is a joke and allows someone who adds background animation to obvious prior art to get a patent on it. Just ask IBM who was granted a scroll bar patent in 1995, when virually every GUI had already long had it including Windows 3.x
Then you have it tried in front of a bunch of postal workers who haven't a clue as to what they are hearing. They just think that TiVo was the first DVR and switch everything else off. "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit".
The PO is reexamining yet again whether TiVo's patents are valid, but getting the organization who screwed up in the first place to admit that after all this money was spend in litigation that they screwed up won't be easy.
Plain and simple, TiVo did not invent the DVR nor did they invent anything in it including the GUI, content linking, simultaneous recording and playback, none of it. They didn't even invent picking an onscreen program to record. They weren't even first to market. Even if they managed to be the first to get a patent on it, that just leaves us with a users keepers losers weepers system that decimates innovation and rewards thieves who exploit the real patented work of others. Our patent system is a joke and then relies on idiot jurors who make sense of it. That is a recipie for epic fail.
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