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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report: January 22, 2002
(Date of earliest event reported)
TIVO INC.
(exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Commission File:
Delaware 000-27141 77-0463167
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(State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or Identification No.)
organization)
2160 Gold Street
P.O. Box 2160
Alviso, California 95002
(Address of Principal executive offices, including zip code)
(408) 519-9100
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(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
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ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS
On January 22, 2002, we filed a lawsuit against SONICblue Incorporated and
its wholly owned subsidiary, ReplayTV, Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California, alleging that we are the owner of United States
Patent No. 6,233,389, entitled "Multimedia Time Warping System," and alleging
further that SONICblue and ReplayTV have willfully and deliberately infringed
the patent by making, using, offering to sell and/or selling within the United
States digital video recording devices, software and/or personal television
services falling within the scope of the patent. We have requested that the
court enjoin SONICblue and ReplayTV from further infringement of the patent and
award us compensatory damages, treble damages and attorneys' fees and costs. We
could be forced to incur material expenses during this litigation and, in the
event we were to lose the lawsuit, our business could be harmed.
Forward-Looking Statements
This current report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements,
including forward-looking statements related to the outcome of the SONICblue
litigation. You can identify forward-looking statements by use of
forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "anticipates," "expects,"
"plans," "may," "will," "intends" or the negative of these words and phrases or
similar words or phrases. You can also identify forward-looking statements by
discussions of strategy, plans or intentions. Such forward-looking statements
have known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our
actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any
results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those
set forth in such forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual
results to differ materially include the "Factors That May Affect Future
Operating Results" and other risks detailed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the period ended December 31, 2000, our Transition Report on Form 10-K for
the period ended January 31, 2001, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
period ended April 30, 2001, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period
ended July 31, 2001 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended
October 31, 2001, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We caution
you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect an
analysis only and speak only as of the date of this Current Report.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
TIVO INC.
Date: February 13, 2002 By: /s/ Matthew P. Zinn
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Matthew P. Zinn
Vice President & General
Counsel