Western Digital Accused of Infringing Flash Memory Patents

Jan. 31, 2024, 6:41 PM UTC

Western Digital Corp. and a subsidiary refused to license Polaris PowerLED Technologies LLC’s flash memory technologies before incorporating the patented designs into hard drives for personal computing, gaming, data storage, and e-commerce, according to a new lawsuit.

“Instead of taking a license, defendants have opted to make the business decision to ‘efficiently infringe’” three Polaris patents, the company said in a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas.

The patented flash memory technologies are allegedly incorporated into a wide array of Western Digital’s solid-state drives, or SSDs, that support the nonvolatile memory standard. ...

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