[Darkman]

Tuesday December 12, 2:25 pm ET

Court Issues Two Orders Relating to DVR Litigation

AUSTIN, TX--(MARKET WIRE)--Dec 12, 2006 -- Forgent(TM) Networks (NASDAQ: FORG - News) -- On Friday, December 8, 2006, the US Federal Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an order relating to Forgent's infringement contentions in the 6,285,746 patent litigation. In addition, on November 20, 2006, the Court denied a motion to stay the litigation pending the outcome of the US Patent Office reexamination of the patent. "We are pleased that this litigation remains on track for a May 2007 trial," commented Richard Snyder.

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Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061212/0194192.html

 

[Darkman]

Posted Dec 13th 2006 11:44PM
by Chris Tew

According to a recent press release Forgent remains on track to sue several media companies over patent infringement of PVR technology. Forgent is suing the likes fo Cable One, The Washington Post Company, Charter Communications, Comcast, TimeWarner, EchoStar and others over the patent infringement claim.

This is by no means a trivial cliam either, Forgent believes that its patent describes how to build a computer-controlled video system that can play back video while recording. So it seems the company believes it owns the fundamental technology behind PVRs.

Forgent is a company that makes most of its money from royalties and going to the courts is nothing new to the company. In the shortest press release I have ever seen Richard Snyder the CEO of Forgent said "We are pleased that this litigation remains on track for a May 2007 trial."

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Source: http://www.pvrwire.com/2006/12/13/forgent-still-on-track-for-pvr-patent-infringement-court-battle/