It has been our position for about 7 years that TiVo invented the DVR, and the US courts have now pretty much proven that to be true. From this position it was easy to see that TiVo would win the case against Dish and Echostar, and then go on to fight others, in shorter legal engagements, such as the one at AT&T. From there we can look at existing legal actions and see them resolved in TiVo’s favor, with the concomitant payouts, so Verizon for one, probably another $200 million, Motorola for another potentially far more, and even Microsoft itself. That last suit was settled this week, with the result being that more and more people take the original Faultline…