TiVo (TIVO) Sued by Motorola (MMI) DVR Patents

TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ:TIVO) is the recipient of a lawsuit from Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE:MMI), which claims Motorola invented digital video recording technology before Tivo.

Motorola is also seeking to find out if Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) is using TiVo technology in its set-top boxes.

Motorola said in the lawsuit, “The TiVo patents disclose and claim the same technology that Imedia engineers invented years before. TiVo obtained patents on its DVR product and sued the industry.”

Verizon was sued by Tivo in 2009 in connection with Verizon's FiOS televison service allegedly violating DVR patents.