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January 19, 2021
Plaintiff Nidec Corporation filed a complaint on Monday in the District of Delaware against Seagate Technology LLC, Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte. Ltd., and Seagate Technology (Netherlands) B.V. (collectively Seagate) for patent infringement, alleging that the defendants have infringed that patent-in-suit through its hard disk drives.
Nidec is a Japanese corporation specializing in motor application products. Seagate is a data storage company. According to the complaint, “(h)ard disk drives, or HDDs, are data storage devices that store large amounts of data either magnetically or optically on encoded discs. HDDs rely on a small precision motor called a spindle motor that rotates these disks at thousands of revolutions per minute, allowing a read-write head to move over the disk and read or write data. HDDs are important components of data center servers and PCS.” Reportedly, Nidec “is one of the major suppliers of HDD s
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January 6, 2021
On Tuesday, Lightside Technologies, LLC filed a complaint in the Southern District of Florida against consumer electronics manufacturer Curtis International Ltd. for its purported infringement of the patents-in-suit in its ProScan-branded television products.
The patents-in-suit include United States Patent No. 8,842,727 (the ’727 patent); 5,999,220 (the ’220 patent); 6,370,198 (the ’198 patent); and 8,228,979 (the ’979 patent). These patents relate to “the field of video production, photographic image processing, and computer graphics.” The plaintiff contended that the defendant “made, sold, offered for sale, used, and/or imported products in the United States” Curtis International’s ProScan-branded products which used the plaintiff’s patented systems, including the ProScan HDTV products and other similar television products.