TiVo Inc. won a landmark victory in its patent infringement lawsuit against EchoStar Communications, a satellite pay-TV operator, on Thursday when it was awarded $73.9 million in damages by the Jury. The amount awarded to TiVo is only about $14 million less than the total damages the company requested. The favorable verdict is expected to resurrect the fledgling company and encourage a shift in digital video recorder strategies at major pay TV operators. Industry observers feel that the ruling would strengthen TiVo's hand in negotiating what have been very elusive licensing deals with cable TV companies. On January 5, 2004 TiVo, a pioneer in "time warped" television technology , filed a patent infringement suit, alleging that EchoStar's technology violated its multimedia time warping system. The time warping technology gives viewers the ability to pause, rewind, or fast-forward live TV programs.

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