In case you've lost your place, once upon a time, TiVo sued EchoStar, saying EchoStar's personal video recorders infringed on TiVo's patents. TiVo won in court, but EchoStar went and filed its own patent infringement suit against TiVo.
EchoStar's countersuit is on hold, but there still hasn't been a resolution in the original suit. Back in August, a federal court had ordered EchoStar to stop selling and supporting PVRs within 30 days, but that ruling was put on hold pending appeal.
Whew, got all that? Well you might not need to be able to sort it all out, because it looks like TiVo and EchoStar could be close to a settlement.
The appeals court has put the case on hold for 14 days, pending "disposition of final post judgement motion in district court," which probably means some sort of a settlement.
