Seagate lawsuit targets solid-state drive maker
Found on The Register on Monday, 14 April 2008
Seagate has fired off its first lawsuit at a maker of solid-state drives since CEO Bill Watkins hinted last month that the company might be forced into taking such action.
STEC told the New York Times that Seagate hadn't approached it to discuss resolving the matter out of court, but it's not as if the company didn't have any warning. Watkins told the world last month that lawsuits might be the outcome if Flash drives become too popular.
Seagate is just afraid of SSD. It realizes that the days of mechanical drives are over, but all its factories are designed to produce exactly those. So they use the patent-hammer to whack those who endanger their business; patents always work as an excuse.