Western Digital and Seagate May be in BIG Trouble due to Patent Infringement

Patent lawsuit: "majority" of Seagate, WD drives infringing

Rembrandt today filed suit against both Seagate and Western Digital in federal court, alleging that most of their hard drives violate a pair of patents Rembrandt purchased from inventor Uri Cohen.

... the complaints name Seagate's Free Agent, Replica, Black Armor, Expansion, Barracuda, Momentus, Savvio, Cheetah, Constellation, Pipeline, DB35, and SV35 disk drives. Western Digital's products include the company's popular My Book line, along with Elements, ShareSpace, My Passport, RE3, Caviar, and Scorpio.

Taken together, that's a lot of hard drives. While Schneck can't say yet what Rembrandt will want in damages, he does mention that the US hard drive market is around $12 billion a year and that Seagate and Western Digital have "a sizable piece of that market." Rembrandt wants a "reasonable royalty" to cover the use of its tech.

The two patents at issue concern low-noise toroidal thin film read/write heads that minimize magnetic interference. Such heads are important for current high-capacity drives; noise and interference become more important the tighter the storage density.

 

:yawn:

patent trolls rarely make anything other than headlines today.

'big trouble' it ain't.......

 

Wah wah wah. They are blowing alot of smoke. It will get struck down in court. End of story lol

 

Im going to file a federal lawsuit against almost every restaurant in the world for infringing my copyright to put cheese on burgers.

 

I hope it doesn't go through because that would just mean a price hike in hard drives. Even if both have to settle, it'll still be a significant sum of cash that could impact pricing for a while at least, if there's any substance to these patents.

 

I dont think it will be struck down.

Just the other month, CSIRO's ancient wifi patent made nearly every manufacturer that used wifi technology bend over.

Talk about major trolling