Does Chinese Magic Infringe Japanese Patent?

According to Business Wire, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has only announced that it has sued GS Magicstor Inc. of China, its Chinese nurture companionship GS Magic Inc. too Riospring, Inc. of Milpitas, CA. (Magicstor's question affiliate) for infringement of numerous Hitachi GST patents relating to difficult disk drives. The suit, filed inwards the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeks monetary damages too a permanent injunction that bars the GS Magic entities from making, using, importing, offering to sell, or selling the allegedly infringing products inwards the US. Said Robert Holleran, full general managing director of Hitachi GST's Hard Disk Drive Group:

"Hitachi GST's powerfulness to compete inwards the difficult disk campaign manufacture is based on a history of deep investment inwards question too development, especially inwards the advancement of innovative small-form-factor difficult drives. We convey a responsibleness to protect our investment too the intellectual holding of our companionship against those who are competing unfairly inwards our industry".

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded inwards Jan 2003 every bit a effect of the strategic combination of Hitachi's too IBM's storage technology scientific discipline businesses. By the goal of 2003, Hitachi GST became the industry's minute largest difficult disk campaign manufacturer amongst $4.2 billion inwards revenue. The company's goal is to enable users to engage fully inwards a digital lifestyle past times providing access to large amounts of storage capacity inwards formats suitable for the office, on the route too inwards the home. The companionship offers customers worldwide a comprehensive arrive at of storage products for desktop computers, high-performance servers too mobile devices.

Hitachi: a difficult project policing difficult disk campaign patents?

is certainly that GS Magicstor won't laissez passer on upward without a fight. The toll too incertitude of patent infringement mightiness good effect inwards the grant of a licence to Hitachi's rival too erstwile infringer.

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