TiVo's little black box, which gives viewers control over when they watch their favorite TV shows, has rocked the broadcasting and advertising industries, spawned patent litigation and even drawn complaints from privacy advocates. General counsel Matthew Zinn says his greatest accomplishment is that TiVo hasn't "been sued out of existence." But now, Zinn is gearing up for a trial in which TiVo is taking the offensive, alleging infringement of its multimedia "time warping system" by EchoStar Communications.
March 15, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
TiVo Inc. has market presence that companies 10 times its size can only dream of. The little black box that it sells gives viewers control over when they watch their favorite TV shows, making it the iPod of the digital video recording industry. Like Google, TiVo is now a verb.
But the company, founded nine years ago and based in Alviso, Calif., has only 400 employees. And just five lawyers, led by General Counsel Matthew Zinn. And they probably don’t have a lot of time to watch TV.
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