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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Satellite companies DISH and EchoStar sue TiVo

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    A screen shows Internet services available through an broadband-connected TiVo digital video recorder at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 5, 2006. DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp said on Friday they had filed a lawsuit against TiVo Inc and asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp said on Friday they had filed a lawsuit against TiVo Inc and asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent.

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    In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals said DISH, a satellite television provider, had infringed a TiVo patent in building digital video recorders, and upheld a lower court's damage award against DISH of $74 million plus interest.

    The appeals court in April denied DISH's request for judges to rehear arguments related to the patent dispute.

    DISH was formerly known as EchoStar Communications Corp. It recently spun off its technology assets, including its set-top box division, to create EchoStar Corp.

    TiVo said it could not comment as it had not seen the filing, but added it was confident in the outcome.

    TiVo shares closed up 1.1 percent at $8.41, while EchoStar shares fell 1.2 percent and DISH shares fell 0.9 percent.

    (Reporting by Ritsuko Ando; Editing by Braden Reddall)
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