TiVo Wins Appeal Over Comcast in First Set-Top Box ITC Case (3)

TiVo Corp. won an appeals court ruling that could help it in its long-running fight over patent royalties with Comcast Corp.

An import ban on certain Comcast television set-top boxes issued by the U.S. International Trade Commission was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The decision involves the first of three disputes between the companies at the trade agency in Washington.

While the patents in this case expired last year, the ruling could help TiVo in its other two cases at the agency, where it’s seeking orders to limit imports of Comcast set-top boxes based ...