Hitachi sues maker of tiny drives
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies sues for infringement of multiple Hitachi patents relating to hard-disk drives.
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Hitachi said it is phasing out its small hard disk drive business as competition heats up with flash memory chips.
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Six patents topped with a slice of avocado Sun Microsystems has spanked Network Appliance with another lawsuit, as relations between the two vendor continue to deteriorate at speed.â¦
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I find Hitachi's decision to launch an external hard drive now an interesting choice: After all, the market is crowded with external hard drives, including 500GB models priced at under $150.
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LOS ANGELES - A video game fan upset over a failed disc drive in his Xbox video game console has sued Microsoft Corp. on behalf of all Xbox owners across the United States.
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(InfoWorld) - Sun MicrosystemsÂ hasÂ become involved in another intellectual property lawsuit, this time with a company that says Sun and its StorageTek unit have committed copyright infringement and fraud. Internet development tools maker Netbula,Â of San Leandro, California, has filed suit against Sun and Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland for unlawful use of Netbula's core technology in their LibAttach software, according to Netbula. Netbula also claims that Sun and StorageTek breached a contract Netbula has with the companies and misrepresented their use of Netbula's technology, part of its main product line PowerRPC, in their infringement of copyrights. PowerRPC is a cross-platform client/server development kit for various versions of Windows, as well as for Unix and Java. Sun announcedÂ it would purchase StorageTek in June 2005, but Netbula is suing the two as separate companies because the copyright infringement began when they were still individual entities, said Vonnah Brillet, the attorney handling the case for Netbula. Brillet said Netbula's president Don Yue developed software and sold a license for it to StorageTek when it was a stand-alone company. At one point when he asked about whether StorageTek was still using the technology, he was told the company was not, she said. However, some time after that, someone from StorageTek asked Yue for updates to the technology, which proved that the company was still using it, but not paying for the license, Brillet said. Netbula tried to resolve the issue with Sun before filing the suit to no avail, the company said. It is seeking an injunction to stop Sun and StorageTek from using its technology. The lawsuit also seeks financial restitution. Sun is currently embroiled in another intellectual property suit over patents. Earlier this year, startup company Azul Systems Inc. sued the Santa Clara, California, vendor in a defensive move afterÂ Sun threatened the company with litigation for patent infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. Azul called Sun's charges unfounded and sued for declaratory relief against the accusations and the threat of litigation. Azul said Sun would file a lawsuit unless Azul granted Sun partial ownership of the company. Sun eventually countersued Azul in May for patent infringement. The cases are still pending in California.
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Intel, Hitachi, Toshiba and others propose CE-ATA, a new interface for miniature hard drives used in consumer electronics.
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Japan&#39;s Toshiba Corp., claiming patent infringement in flash-memory chips on the part of Korean semiconductor manufacturer Hynix, filed a lawsuit with Tokyo District Court on Monday.
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Hitachi Ltd. said on Tuesday it is  seeking to push the limits of data storage with smaller  stamp-sized disks for handheld gadgets and vastly  higher-capacity drives that can store up to 100 films.
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HDS Virtual storage gets thin provisioning Hitachi Data Systems is scaling down its Universal Storage Platform V system to target the virtualization needs of the mid-range market.â¦
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The joint lawsuit was filed yesterday in federal court in Seattle against Gold Disk Canada and its principals -- Barry, Eric and Matthew Head -- and accuses them of misusing Microsoft&#39;s Hotmail
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A video game fan upset over a  failed disc drive in his Xbox video game console has sued  Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O on behalf of all Xbox owners across  the United States..
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USA Video Technology Corp., a small  technology firm that holds patents for the digital delivery of  media, said on Thursday it has filed a suit against top U.S.  cable operators over their video-on-demand services.
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Hitachi has released a statement denying that it has sagreed to sell its disk drive business to a U.S. private equity firm.
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TOKYO Toshiba, Japan&#39;s second-largest chip maker, said Tuesday that it had filed lawsuits in the United States and Japan against Hynix Semiconductor for patent violations on memory chips used in computers and other consumer electronics.
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International Business Machines Corp. countered Hitachi Ltd.'s September announcement by unveiling its own high-end storage server it claims puts it in the lead in that market.
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The DataTreasury Corporation has sued companies that it says have infringed on its two patents, which describe a way to store and retrieve transaction records electronically.