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Originally Posted by epsilon
But is Sky actually licensing rights to intellectual property of the original Tivo Inc.?
Macrovision Solutions Corporation and, subsequently, Rovi Corporation licensed its own intellectual property to the industry long before it acquired Tivo Inc. renaming the merged company as Tivo Corporation.
Before assuming that Sky is using Tivo technology, it might be worth checking if Sky is actually licensing rights to the IP of the original Rovi Corporation (EPG software patents / copy protection etc).
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Correct. Rovi bought Gemstar-TV-Guide, and Sky have licensed their EPG format patents since 2006.
Now it may be that these licences now include additional Rovi patents, but that wasn't the original deal.