TiVo applauded a federal appeals court ruling Friday that temporarily blocked EchoStar Communications Corp., parent of the Dish satellite-TV service, from disabling more than 3 million digital video recorders, the Associated Press reported. The appeals court blocked an injunction that was issued Thursday by a federal district court judge in Texarkana, Texas. The injunction followed a jury decision in April that EchoStar infringed on San Jose-based TiVo's patent for "time-warp" technology -- the ability to record a live television program while playing another, the wire service said. Judge David Folsom also increased the jury's verdict that Colorado-based EchoStar should pay $74 million in damages to $89.6 million -- beyond the $87 million that TiVo's lawyers asked the jury to award.

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