Seagate May Sue if Solid State Disks Get Popular

tero writes "Even though Seagate has announced it will be offering SSD disks of its own in 2008, their CEO Bill Watkins seems to be sending out mixed signals in a recent Fortune interview 'He's convinced, he confides, that SSD makers like Samsung and Intel (INTC) are violating Seagate's patents. (An Intel spokeswoman says the company doesn't comment on speculation.) Seagate and Western Digital (WDC), two of the major hard drive makers, have patents that deal with many of the ways a storage device communicates with a computer, Watkins says. It stands to reason that sooner or later, Seagate will sue — particularly if it looks like SSDs could become a real threat.'"

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Re:holy cats! the world is changing!

[superwiz]

What are the odds that their patent simply contains the phrase: "A mechanism for storing or recreating data created on a computer for later retrieval." Not as high as the odds that they have actual bona fide innovations patented. Or are you making an argument that there has been no advances in how hard drives communicate with the bus? Perhaps your contention is that those advances were obvious? It's one thing to shill against business-method patents, but it's quite another to shriek at people just because they refuse to be communist.