EchoStar Communications Corp. finally got some good news last week. Pending its appeal, the direct-broadcast satellite provider was told by a federal court that it doesn't have to deactivate its subscribers' digital video recorders or stop selling the devices. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed to continue to stay an injunction, issued in August, which ordered EchoStar to pull the plug on its subscribers' DVRs within 30 days. That permanent injunction was issued after a jury and judge awarded TiVo Inc. a total of $89.6 million in damages in its patent infringement case against EchoStar. EchoStar had secured a temporary stay of the injunction, but last week the court said that it will remain in place while the satellite company pursues an appeal of the TiVo verdict.

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