Thursday, October 25th 2007
SanDisk Suing 25 Companies for Patent Infringement
SanDisk, a company well known for developing and manufacturing flash-based storage solutions, is suing 25 companies including LG Electronics for allegedly infringing patents used in removable flash storage products such as MP3 players and USB flash drives. The company has filed two lawsuits, one for five patent infringements and the other for two patent infringements, as well as filing a complaint with the US International Trade Commission asking to have the companies being accused barred from exporting their products to the USA. Other companies involved include Buffalo, Apacer Technology and Kingston, and if the case is successful it could see a rise in the price of flash-based storage such as CompactFlash cards.
Source:
InfoWorld
16 Comments on SanDisk Suing 25 Companies for Patent Infringement
A legitimate patent lawsuit? Somebody pinch me.
In a way thats a pitty, but if it is actually legit. Lets hope than can do something about it.
I'm slightly glad about this lawsuit, from the sense that too many ridiculous copyright infringement suits are being filed lately, while legit., meaningful technological infringements go unnoticed.
Go SanDisk! And props for the ingenuity for those OG technologies, sorry lamers stole them.
they know about this from a while and they let all to infringe the patents;let all use it and when they rise and have enough money f...k them :laugh:
Flash Storage Devices are SO cheap these days, it wouldn´t bother me if the pricing climbed a bit.
IMHO that´s just fair play.