TIVO GRANTED EIGHT NEW DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN PATENTS The
United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued new patents to TiVo covering important aspects of DVR software and hardware design.
What can I say but Aaaaaaarrrggghhhhh!!!!!!!
What was that Clash song again? "I'm so bored with the U.S.A."...
Well, thanks to the EU commission that has repeatedly ignored the EP decisions, we're going the same route.
And again if open source communities have made such features and published them before the date Tivo applied for patent, that is the easy way of removing the patent.
USPTO doesn't check google for that stuff.. :-) They take money from companies by allowing them to patent things, and decide later if that patent was a valid one.
BR, Jori