DISH Must Pay ClearPlay $469 Million Over DVR Tech, Jury Says

Jurors in Utah found that DISH Network LLC owes ClearPlay almost half a billion dollars for infringement of two patents, capping off nine years of litigation over digital video recorder technology.

The jury, at the end of a two-week trial, entered a verdict on March 10 that DISH infringed ClearPlay’s patents, though not willfully; that DISH hadn’t proven either of them to be invalid; and that DISH owed $469 million in damages.

ClearPlay said in a complaint, filed in 2014 in the US District Court for the District of Utah, that DISH used its patented technology for its Hopper ...