Dish Preserves Win Over DVR Patent Owner in $469 Million Case

Dish Network LLC convinced the Federal Circuit that a $469 million patent infringement verdict against the satellite television company over a commercial-skipping feature for its Hopper DVR product was rightfully thrown out.

The appeals court rejected patent owner ClearPlay’s arguments that a district court judge in Utah’s order wiping out the verdict was invalid because it departed from interpretations of claims from both of the patents: US Patent Nos. 7,577,970 and 6,898,799.

“There was no error in the claim constructions employed by the district court,” Judge Allison D. Burroughs wrote in an opinion while sitting by designation from the ...