 Re: Seagate suing for patent infringement
Quote: Updated 4/15/2008:
STEC released a statement regarding the Seagate lawsuit. Here's a portion from that statement: STEC is one of the first companies to build SSDs, having designed, manufactured and shipped SSDs as early as 1994, long before any of the suggested patents were issued to Seagate. Given the effect SSDs are having on the HDD market, STEC believes that Seagate's lawsuit is completely without merit and primarily motivated by competitive concerns rather than a desire to protect its intellectual property. STEC believes that Seagate's action is a desperate move to disrupt how aggressively customers are embracing STEC's Zeus-IOPS technology and changing the balance of power in enterprise storage. Seagate is sending a clear signal that it recognizes STEC as the leader in the SSD business and is attempting to slow down part of the growth that STEC is gaining through its SSD offering, particularly in the enterprise segment. STEC will aggressively pursue its defense to this infringement action.
In addition, STEC will also closely examine the patents asserted by Seagate as STEC believes it held such technology including prior patents, dating more than a decade prior to any of Seagate's patents. Although STEC is in the process of analyzing the claims in this lawsuit, STEC believes that Seagate's asserted patents pertain to technologies where STEC has years of prior experience and/or patents. STEC has significant patents related to SSD which have been developed through the decades of experience STEC has with developing, manufacturing and shipping SSDs. Beyond that long history, STEC also believes that many of Seagate's claims are not relevant to SSD. For example, STEC was one of the originators of stacking technology with patents dating back to the mid-1990s, while Seagate's patent on this matter was issued in 2005.
Through this process, STEC will determine if Seagate is misappropriating any of STEC's core technologies; STEC will take appropriate action to protect its interests, including seeking the invalidation of Seagate's patents. | Hahaha, if STEC gets to prove that Seagate is trying to get money using patents they don't own, I'm gonna laugh my ass till the end of time. That will teach 'em.
On a more or less related note, I went to STEC webpage. They have very tasty SSD drives, including the Zeus IOPS SATA one offered in 2.5/3.5" for factor ranging from 16GB to 256GB and 200/100MB/s read/write. Yummy!
Wish I had money for a RAID0 of those hehehe. You can trust me I wouldn't mind saving space to install my OS on 32GB. :P   If there is a final hour, let's hope for a higher power. One by one, and two by two, I have ammo, what about you? | 
April 16th, 2008
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