TiVo 2004 Annual Report Download - page 14

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Index to Financial Statements
work experience includes Texas Instruments, the U.S. State Department, and the White House. He holds a B.A. in History from Yale University and
completed the Stanford Business School's Executive Program for Growing Companies.
Matthew Zinn has served as Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Privacy Officer since July 2000 and as Corporate Secretary since November
2003. From May 1998 to July 2000, Mr. Zinn was the Senior Attorney, Broadband Law and Policy for the MediaOne Group, a global communications
company. From August 1995 to May 1998, Mr. Zinn served as corporate counsel for Continental Cablevision, the third largest cable television operator in the
United States. From November 1993 to August 1995, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Cole, Raywid & Braverman, where he
represented cable operators in federal, state, and local matters. Mr. Zinn holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont and holds a
J.D. degree from the George Washington University National Law Center.
Steve Zoppi has served as Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer since June 2004. From March 2002 to June 2004,
Mr. Zoppi was Vice President of Operations for Hotwire, Inc, an online provider of discount travel. From July 1999 to February 2002, Mr. Zoppi was Vice
President and Chief Information Officer for Electronics for Imaging, creator of software and hardware digital imaging solutions for network printing. Mr.
Zoppi holds a B.S. degree in Information Systems Management and an A.S. in Music from the University of San Francisco.
Other Information
TiVo was incorporated in August 1997 as a Delaware corporation and is located in Alviso, California. In August of 2000, we formed a wholly owned
subsidiary, TiVo (UK) Ltd., in the United Kingdom. In October of 2001, we formed a subsidiary, TiVo International, Inc., a Delaware corporation. On
January 12, 2004, we acquired Strangeberry, Inc., a small Palo Alto based technology company specializing in using home network and broadband
technologies to create new entertainment experiences on television. On July 16, 2004, TiVo Intl. II, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of TiVo Inc., was
incorporated in the Cayman Islands. On March 22, 2005, TiVo Brands LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TiVo Inc., was incorporated in the State of
Delaware.
We maintain an Internet website at the following address: www.tivo.com. The information on our website is not incorporated by reference in this
annual report on Form 10-K or in any other filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
We make available on or through our website certain reports and amendments to those reports that we file with or furnish to the SEC in accordance
with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Securities Exchange Act"). These include our annual reports on Form 10-K, our quarterly reports on Form 10-
Q, and our current reports on Form 8-K. We make this information available on or through our website free of charge as soon as reasonably practicable after
we electronically file the information with, or furnish it to, the SEC.
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Properties
Our corporate headquarters, which houses our administrative, sales and marketing, customer service and product development activities, is located in
Alviso, California, under a lease that expires in March 2007. We believe that our corporate facilities will be adequate to meet our office space needs for the
next several years as we currently utilize approximately 90% of the total office space. Our facilities lease obligations are subject to periodic increases and we
believe that our existing facilities are well maintained and in good operating condition.
Additionally, we currently lease international office space in Berkshire, United Kingdom under a lease that expires in March 2006. We have vacated
this facility and no longer maintain an office in the United Kingdom.
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Compression Labs Litigation. On August 5, 2004, Compression Labs, Inc. filed a complaint against TiVo Inc., Acer American Corporation, AudioVox
Corporation, BancTec, Inc., BenQ America Corporation, Color Dreams, Inc. (d/b/a StarDot Technologies), Google Inc., ScanSoft, Inc., Sun Microsystems
Inc., Veo Inc., and Yahoo! Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas alleging infringement, inducement of others to infringe, and
contributory infringement of U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672, entitled "Coding System For Reducing Redundancy. " The complaint alleges that Compression Labs,
Inc. is the owner of this patent and has the exclusive rights to sue and recover for infringement thereof. The complaint further alleges that the defendants have
infringed, induced infringement, and contributorily infringed this patent by selling devices and/or systems in the United States, at least portions of which are
designed to be at least partly compliant with the JPEG standard. On February 16, 2005, the Court ordered the case transferred to The U.S. District Court for
the Northern District of California. We are incurring expenses in connection with this litigation that may become material in the future, and in the event there
is an adverse outcome, our business could be harmed.
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