TiVo scored a victory Monday when the Supreme Court refused to intervene in a $74 million DVR patent case against Dish Networks.

The high court rejected a bid by Dish Networks to invalidate a 2006 Texas District Court decision that found Dish guilty of violating TiVo's patent for "time warping" technology, which allows TV viewers to tape one show while watching another.

TiVo sued EchoStar, which changed its name to Dish Networks in December 2007, in 2004 for patent infringement, and won a $73.9 million judgment two years later. An appeals court upheld that decision in April 2008.

"We are extremely pleased" by the ruling, TiVo said in a statement. "We look forward to the expeditious receipt of damages awarded by the District Court covering the period through September 8, 2006 and remain confident that the District Court will enforce the injunction and award further damages from EchoStar's continued infringement of our Time Warp patent."

Dish Networks said the high court's rejection was "expected" and that it will not affect future production of its DVRs.

The decision "does not impact our software design-around, which has been placed in Dish DVRs subject to the district court's injunction, and our customers can continue using their DISH DVRs," the company said in a statement. "We believe that the design-around does not infringe TiVo's patent and that TiVo's pending motion for contempt should be denied."

Dish pledged to pay TiVo about $104 million -- the 2006 judgment plus interest.

"The money is in an escrow account and will be released to TiVo in the next few days," according to Dish.