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Comment Re:Memories (Score 1) 216

by dsa157 on Tuesday July 18, 2006 @05:36PM (#15739772) Attached to: Re-Inventing Hotwheels

This was what I wanted to do with my son a few years ago when he was into Hot Wheels. One of the problems I found was that you couldn't just buy a whole lot of plain track and connectors, you had to buy all the different sets that had a bunch of stuff we didn't want. Mattel should keep it simple.

Dave

Life or Death for Tivo 284

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 04, 2006 @12:48PM from the i-like-his-silly-feet dept.

CUShane writes "The Washington Post is running an article on the patent case between Tivo and EchoStar regarding Tivo's DVR technology. The article states that Tivo has a better than 70% chance of winning, while a loss would basically doom the company. Is there a possibility that the patent system is working right in this case?" From the article: "TiVo attorney Morgan Chu has been arguing in court that TiVo's inability to turn a profit, despite the popularity of its product, is partially because of EchoStar's infringing on its patent. TiVo co-founder Michael Ramsay testified that he showed EchoStar executives the TiVo product and pursued a licensing deal with them, but that a deal was never struck even though EchoStar began selling its own DVRs that used technology very similar to TiVo's."

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