Motorola Mobility Holdings has filed a patent lawsuit against TV recording outfit TiVo, claiming that it owns the rights to the digital-video recording technology used in the company’s ‘time warp’ devices.

According to reports, the complaint claims that Alviso-based TiVo has infringed on multiple patents related to DVRs, including some that were developed in the mid-1990s — more than two years before TiVo was founded — by a group of engineers whose company was later purchased by a Motorola subsidiary.

As per reports, Motorola’s suit also referenced ongoing legal action TiVo filed in 2009 against Verizon Communications Inc. offered over DVR services through Motorola set-top boxes.

Motorola is seeking to have TiVo’s patents declared invalid and also an affirmation that Motorola set-top boxes do not violate TiVo’s patents.