I've just found out that Korea's Daum Communications Corp who owns Lycos is filing a patent lawsuit against TiVo, Netflix and Blockbuster. The lawsuit was filed on January 3rd and Lycos is claiming that TiVo, NetFlix and Blockbuster is infringing a patent which covers "information filtering technology,"and basically relates to how TiVo, Netflix and Blockbuster provide recommendations to customers for movies or television shows.
It seems to be and odd time for Lycos to take on the lawsuit and also odd that the company has decided to take on three companies at once, rather than targeting a weak company to gain some legal leverage, or targeting a large company with deep pockets.
Davis Freeberg has discussed the lawsuit in more detail, which was originally brought to everyone's attention with a brief mention in the Mercury News but as of yet has not had much press coverage.
