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TiVo successfully defends patent for "time-warp" DVR

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by huangm • 16 years ago

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rottencupcakes• 16 years ago

Does anyone have any legal knowledge on what this means for software products like Windows Media Center?

nitrogen• 16 years ago

Herein lies the big problem with software patents: patents are supposed to cover inventions, but with software they cover ideas. A completely different implementation in code could still infringe a sufficiently vague software patent.

patrickaljord• 16 years ago

> In June, the patent office ruled in a separate case that TiVo's patent claims for its "time-warp" DVR technology were invalid.

wtf?

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