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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. Re:Aw crap! by mpapet · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a shakedown.

    Seagate fears the market potential STEC has. The simplest path is to litigate STEC to death over patents or trademark.

    It's happened to every small company I've worked for. Most of them closed up shop because the big fish buried them in Trademark and Patent litigation over and over again.

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