Last week, both Seagate and Western Digital sued hard drive newcomer Cornice in separate patent-infringement lawsuits. So besides that welcome wagon, Seagate has now asked the US International Trade Commission to ban the importation of any device that uses one of Cornice’s 1-inch hard drives, which brings me to why you care. If the USITC goes for it, MP3 players from Aiwa, iRiver, Element, Agere, Rio, and RCA — and that’s just the short list — could be illegal to import under the injunction. That takes the lawsuit from boring, insider sniping to slightly-less-boring and irritating, and well, I thought you should know.
Also, it must be frustrating for a new company, without years of links to cloud the Google waters, to return as the search results of its name two links to its website and a third to a news story about a lawsuit against them.
Read – Seagate targets rival with import ban demand [ElRegistor]
