Seagate drops patent suit againt SSD maker STEC

jmke · 25th February 2009, 18:25

Well, that was pretty anticlimactic. Seagate, which filed suit against SSD-maker STEC back in April 2008-- 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, let's play something else" when you're losing so bad you only have Baltic Avenue left, but maybe that's just us. (src: Engadget)

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/...ap6072250.html

25th February 2009, 18:25	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Seagate drops patent suit againt SSD maker STEC Well, that was pretty anticlimactic. Seagate, which filed suit against SSD-maker STEC back in April 2008-- 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, let's play something else" when you're losing so bad you only have Baltic Avenue left, but maybe that's just us. (src: Engadget) http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/...ap6072250.html __________________

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