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Seagate Sues STEC For Patent Infringement

Posted by kdawson on from the hey-at-least-it's-not-a-software-patent dept.

Lucas123 writes "Yesterday Seagate filed suit against STEC, claiming several of its products, including solid state disks and some DRAM devices, infringe as many as four of its patents. Today STEC responded that it holds patents on the technology 10 years older than Seagate's. A Seagate win in the suit, or a settlement, could result in the equivalent of a tax on SSDs and potentially other flash memory products, increasing prices to end users at a time when demand for SSD storage is exploding."

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  1. Clearly, protecting the innovator by pieterh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once again, patents protect the innovative small company from brutal and unwarranted aggression by larger out-dated firms who...

    Hang on. Seagate. Right.

    Oh, this must be one of those very rare cases where patents don't act in the interests of society.

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  2. Patent Infrignment by Ceiynt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe STEC can get Kurt Denke on the phone about this. He seems to have pwned Monster Cables with patent C&D latters.