If they could TiVo legal action, it was the kind of year that partners at Irell & Manella might have wanted to record.

The firm, in 2011, scored a series of key victories in major patent disputes involving TiVo Inc., maker of the famed digital video recorder. In April 2011, just nine days after an en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down a victory for TiVo, competitor EchoStar Corp. settled a seven-year patent dispute with the DVR maker for $500 million.

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