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To: Sam Citron who wrote (1835)	3/31/2006 11:01:06 AM
From: Gamma Positive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2093

Sam, you are not serious are you? Just because a patent is non-obvious to you does not make it meaningless. If that were the case, 99.9% of all patents would be "meaningless" (not just to you but to all of us).

To: Sam Citron who wrote (1835)	3/31/2006 11:05:11 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2093

re: So no double tuners except for the DirectTV boxes, eh? I thought the Humax box had dual tuners, but I could be wrong. re: Seems wierd they are suing dish on the basis of this feature patent which is so inoccuous to me that I didn't even know I missed not having it. Should I infer that TIVO thinks their other patents are worthless? I don't know. But they have patents on many, many of the basic functions of DVRs. I think they even have one on "time shifting"; the essence of the device. As this is their first defense of their IP, they may have chosen something that is easy to explain to a jury, so that the trial is shorter (and cheaper), or they may have picked the one that is easiest to defend. Just WAG on my part. I haven't seen an article that talks about the exact patent that they are defending; so you have a link? John