HPE Sues Quanta for Infringing Server Patents (Corrected)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. sued Taiwanese computer maker Quanta Computer Inc. in California federal court on Thursday for allegedly infringing four patents related to its servers.

HPE told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that Quanta’s servers, storage devices, hard-drive bays, and network devices infringe the patents.

Specifically, HPE accused Quanta of infringing U.S. Patent Nos. 7,567,522; 7,966,389; 8,218,566; and D699,720. The utility patents broadly relate to router, network, and server-control technology, and the design patent covers a hard-drive carrier design.

HP Inc.—from which HPE split in 2015—won $439 million from Quanta earlier this year ...