forbes.com - 2/25/2009
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Disk drive maker Seagate Technology LLC has dropped a patent suit against rival Stec Inc. and said Thursday that Stec has dropped its countersuit. In a statement, Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Seagate said pursuing the case is no longer worth the cost because poor economic conditions have limited ...
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engadget.com - 2/27/2009
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engadget.com —
Well, that was pretty anticlimactic. Seagate, which filed
suit against SSD-maker STEC back in April -- claiming...
the company infringed on four of its patents for SSD interfaces -- in March after talking quite a sizeable game about similar possible ...
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Seagate drops patent suit againt SSD maker STEC, runs home crying
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... Well, that was pretty anticlimactic. Seagate, which filed suit against SSD-maker STEC back in April -- claiming the company infringed on four of its patents for SSD interfaces -- in March after talking quite a sizeable game about similar possible actions against the big boys (Intel and Samsung), has just dropped the claim. Seagate said that the case against STEC was "no longer worth pursuing" because economic conditions are now so bad that STEC isn't really selling many of the SSDs in question. That all sounds a little like saying "Monopoly stinks, ...
Seagate Dropped Patent Suit against Stec
HardMac.com —
Source : ForbesSeagate announced to have stopped a patent suit launched against the SDD manufacturer Stec. Seagate was claiming that Stec was using some of its patents in its SSD products directly competing with Seagate HD models. According to a Seagate representative, the legal action is no longer worth the cost because the poor economic condition compromised Stec's sales of products containing the disputed technology.
From the beginning, many analysts and IT websites (including us) were considering this legal action as a way to slow down SSD ...
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