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28 Nov, 2007 1:01 am
By Joseph F. Kovar, CMP Channel Storage company Xiotech on Tuesday announced funding for the acquisition of Seagate's Advanced Storage
Architecture (ASA) group thanks to a new round of investment. Xiotech, a Fibre Channel and iSCSI ... in Eden Prairie, Minn., said it completed an investment round of over $40 million,
led by Steve Luczo, chairman of Seagate Technology. Luczo was also elected to Xiotech's board of
directors. The investment was raised specifically to fund the ASA group acquisition and ...
16 Sep 4:47 pm
... the settlement was "fair, reasonable and adequate." See blog post. However, the objector in Cho v. Seagate Technology Holdings, Inc. (Klausner, Objector) (September 15, 2009) did not achieve similar results, despite appealing ... with the parties' objective and no
quarrel with the trial court's finding that exclusion of "those who purchased outside of Seagate's authorized retail channels" is "rationally
based on legitimate considerations." The problem is that a fair reading of the class definition ...
6 Dec, 2007 2:29 am
... Businesses Protect and Manage their Valuable Data SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX - News) announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire MetaLINCS, a technology leader in
the ... location of live and backup data as never before." "Today's announcement represents another strategic step for the Seagate Services
Group and further reinforces our commitment to providing customers with innovative technology-based services and solutions ...
17 May, 2007 7:35 am
... , the article delves further into the CAFC's Quantum dicta, which encourages bifurcation of trials for liability and willfulness issues. In In re Seagate Technology, L.L.C., the en banc Federal Circuit has the opportunity (and, it seems, the desire) to squarely
... by the Federal Circuit. Read the article: [HTML] [PDF]. Preferred Citation: Joseph Casino and Michael Kasdan, In re Seagate Technology: Willfulness and Waiver, a Summary and a Proposal, 2007 Patently-O Patent L.J. 1, [www.patentlyo.com].
14 Oct 5:00 am
In Cho v. Seagate Technology Holdings, Inc., 177 Cal.App.4th 734 (Sept. 15, 2009) (which was handed
down while I was away on vacation), the Court of Appeal overruled objections to a classwide settlement, ... orders of the trial court and remand for further proceedings to correct the
class definition to unambiguously state that indirect purchasers of new Seagate disc drives are members of the plaintiff class and to renotice
the settlement in order to give adequate notice to all class members, and ...
24 Aug, 2007 11:40 am
... a live 90-Minute CLE Teleconference with Interactive Q&A on September 18, 2007 titled, "In re Seagate Technology - Federal Circuit Sets New Standard - Understanding the New Patent Infringement Standard and Advice of ... and implications for IP owners and
counsel going forward. The panel includes: Brian E. Ferguson, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, D.C. He argued on behalf of Seagate Technology in this case. Mark P. Wine, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, Los Angeles. David R. ...
6 Dec, 2007 9:06 am
Link to press release: Enhances Services Mission to Help Businesses Protect and Manage their Valuable Data SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-December 6, 2007-Today, Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire MetaLINCS, a technology leader in the fast-growing E-Discovery market. MetaLINCS's innovative, patent-pending software helps companies respond to litigation and regulatory
issues that require [...]
18 May, 2007 7:13 am
Dennis Crouch wrote yesterday, May 17, 2007, at his Patently-O blog: In re Seagate questions the scope of privilege and work-product waiver
associated with an opinion-of-counsel defense to willfulness. In a new article, Joseph Casino and Michael Kasdan attempt to re-focus the debate by arguing for a "temporal limitation on
the scope of waiver which is not hinged on retaining separate [opinion and litigation] counsel." In addition, the article delves further into the CAFC's Quantum dicta, which ...
20 Aug, 2007 2:32 pm
In a rare unanimous en banc opinion, the CAFC has overruled its prior precedent - holding that willful infringement enhanced damages now requires "at least a showing of objective
recklessness." Accordingly, to establish willful infringement, a patentee must show by clear and convincing evidence that the infringer acted despite an objectively high likelihood that
its actions constituted infringement of a valid patent. This eliminates the "affirmative duty of due care" that has historically been ...
21 Aug, 2007 11:24 pm
/**/ By Charles S. Barquist, Alison Tucher, Jason A. Crotty Introduction Yesterday the Federal Circuit issued a decision that will affect almost every company accused of patent
infringement, as well as the trial lawyers and opinion counsel who represent them. In a much-anticipated en banc decision,[1] the court overruled its standard for proving willful patent
infringement, raising the bar by requiring clear and convincing evidence of "objective recklessness" on the part of the accused ...
18 Apr, 2008 1:30 pm
... drives (HDDs), but lags behind several competitors in the SSD market. [1] On Monday, April 14th, Seagate Technology filed a patent infringement lawsuit against STEC. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the ... involving fundamental technologies
would dramatically increase its leverage against competitors, especially smaller companies with fewer resources. Seagate faces criticism from a
variety of sources, many of whom charge that the company is simply trying to stifle competition in ...
8 Nov, 2007 1:54 am
By Joseph F. Kovar Xiotech on Tuesday said it has acquired Seagate Technology's Advanced Storage
Architecture (ASA) group, which includes certain assets, about 100 people, a license to related technology, and one of the IT industry's true
comedians. Xiotech wouldn't say much beyond that, ... went with the news also mentioned two key people of ASA. Ellen Lary, a consultant to the Seagate ASA group, will serve as vice president and general manager of the group under Xiotech. And ...
6 Sep, 2007 4:58 am
... , the colorful and plain-talking chief executive office of Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Seagate Technology (SEG) knows it all too well, and is doing his best to ... could learn from Apple (AAPL) and offer a better user experience as a differentiator for
the commodity technology products. The next time I saw him, he was busy showing off his company's efforts at a recent meet-and-greet event for
the media. Seagate is launching a major refresh of its consumer disk drives (some up to a terabyte (TB) in ...
15 Apr, 2008 7:37 am
Erika Brown reported today, April 15, 2008, at Forbes that: Hard-disk drive industry leader Seagate Technologies filed a suit on Monday
against a competitor, STEC, a maker of solid-state drives, alleging patent violations. The move could set an important precedent and stall the solid-state storage industry. At issue are
patents related to sophisticated, arcane technology such as "surface mount stacking method and device," "hardware assisted memory backup system
and method," and "method ...
21 Aug, 2008 10:01 pm
... to GC in April. Not a Valley denizen, Massaroni is commuting to Scotts Valley from Minneapolis where he was stationed as Seagate's top IP
lawyer. "The flight attendants know me on a first-name basis," he said. Eventually he'll move to the area. Like any other tech company, Seagate
has a lot of IP litigation to deal with and has been involved in the long-running In Re Seagate Technologies, in which the company is
fighting infringement and trade secret claims. The case resulted in an ...
7 Dec, 2007 5:51 am
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-December 6, 2007-Today, Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) announced that it has
signed an agreement to acquire MetaLINCS, a technology leader in the fast-growing E-Discovery market. MetaLINCS's innovative, patent-pending
... be in charge of Seagate Services Group's E-Discovery unit, according to the company. This is just the latest acquisition for
Seagate in 2007. The company, which is based in Scotts Valley, California, also bought EVault, which sells online backup and archiving ...
18 Feb 5:07 am
Disk drive giant Seagate Technology settled a patent fight with Cornice Inc. two years ago. Problem
is, according to Seagate, its insurer won't pick up the tab for its lawyers at Fish & Richardson. With the company now suing its ... Union
Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh has paid only $4 million of the $10 million it spent on the case. Seagate originally filed patent infringement
claims against Cornice over its tiny disk drives in the International Trade ...
23 Aug, 2007 2:14 pm
... that the subject matter waiver resulting from assertion of an advice-of-counsel defense extends to trial counsel. In re Seagate stems from
a petition seeking mandamus relief from an order of the district court for the Southern District of New York requiring ... the Federal Circuit just issued its opinion on Monday, August
20, 2007. The opinion states, in part: Seagate Technology, LLC ("Seagate") petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the United States District Court for the Southern District ...
28 Aug, 2007 10:01 pm
... held that: "Proof of willful infringement permitting enhanced damages requires at least a showing of objective recklessness." In re Seagate
Technology, LLC, Civ. No. 830 (Fed. Cir. 2007) (en banc) (Newman, J., Garjarsa, J., concurring). ... waive privilege over such advice because
there will be additional, statutorily defined limits and defenses to willfulness." Comments: [1] In re Seagate: Rethinking Waiver of Privilege
and the Future of the Affirmative Duty of Care, IPL Newsletter, vol. 25, No. 4 ...
6 Nov, 2007 11:47 am
... , or giving them software valued at $40. It will also pay attorney fees of $1.79 million. The class action alleged that Seagate overstated
the amount of capacity on its drives by 7% because it used the decimal definition of gigabyte (1 billion bytes) as opposed to the binary ... ). Seagate did not admit that any of its representations were deceptive and said that it settled to avoid the cost of litigation. Cho v. Seagate Technology (US) Holdings, Inc., Case No. 453195 (S.F. Superior Court, 2005).
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