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HP sues EMC over storage
News Hewlett-Packard has sued EMC, saying the storage specialist has infringed seven HP patents relating to data storage. The patents involve transferring data between different storage formats, connecting servers to storage systems with switches...
[October 1, 2002, 7:39]
NetApp files patent suit against Sun
News NetApp has filed a patent lawsuit against Sun, alleging that Sun's ZFS storage software, a key element to its Solaris operating system, violates seven of its patents. Sun approached NetApp about 18 months ago with claims the storage maker was...
[September 6, 2007, 11:44]
Disk-drive industry sees brighter future in store
Talkback Colossal Storage Corporation has proven their invention on dominant patents the first patents issued in any field that details a totally new concept for a Ultra-Violet/Deep Blue Laser integrated semiconductor R/W Head used for non-contact...
[September 12, 2003, 19:34]
EMC and Hitachi agree to cross-license patents
News Storage makers EMC and Hitachi on Tuesday settled their patent-infringement suits and countersuits, agreeing to cross-license patents and exchange technology. EMC filed suit against Hitachi in April 2002, alleging that HDS shipped software that...
[March 4, 2003, 14:54]
How IBM is cashing in
News In the past six years alone, IBM has registered more than 10,000 patents, covering security, cryptography, software, storage, networking, PC and server architectures, and semiconductor design and manufacturing.
[September 21, 1999, 15:52]
Microsoft patent-infringement case to go to trial
News Both TVI patents cover a "host device equipped with means for starting a process in response to detecting insertion of a storage media" and describe an "autostart driver in the host device (that) detects insertion of a storage media into a...
[October 14, 2004, 9:00]
Memory makers adopt xD for digital pics
News Lexar Media said it has extended its partnership to license patents to Olympus and sell its card in Olympus cameras. SanDisk said it has signed a five-year agreement to swap patents and manufacture xD-Picture Cards for Olympus.
[May 28, 2003, 13:29]
Sun-Microsoft pact brings single sign-on closer to reality
News For now, it's the most concrete example of cooperation between the companies whose fierce competition was blunted somewhat by a 2004 agreement to settle legal issues, share patents and make their software interoperable.
[May 16, 2005, 10:10]
Microsoft wins final FAT battle
News Two patents covering one of Microsoft's main Windows file-storage systems are valid after all, US federal patent examiners have decided. The decision, announced Tuesday by the software giant, effectively ends a two-year saga over the patents and...
[January 11, 2006, 14:35]
Intel demonstrates silicon laser
Talkback Uses 1998 patents for Nano UV laser diode in their integrated semiconductor read/write head for ferroelectric optical media. Atomic Holographic Optical Data Storage I think they are years ahead of Intel.http://colossalstorage.net
[February 21, 2005, 3:26]
Quantum Corporation Speeds Time to Market, Reduces Costs With Product Lifecycle Management Applications
White Papers Quantum Corporation wanted to accelerate product innovation and time to market for new storage products and upgrades, and optimize value realized on patents in the competitive data storage market and drive down development and production costs to...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
Flash storage firm countersues Intel
News Intel sued Silicon Storage Friday, claiming that its Flash EEPROM memory chips, which can be electrically erased and reprogrammed, infringed on four Intel patents. Silicon's suit today charges Intel with anti-competitive practices.
[November 17, 1997, 13:02]
EU to throw patents in with the bath water
Talkback Most software patents are of such low low quality. I have been to Brussels there on behalf of the company I work for and explained to parlement members we don't need software patents and we will never have the time or the funding to get the patents.
[December 18, 2004, 22:45]
Online storage service adding a terabyte a week
News Streamload also has patents and intellectual property it could license to large storage providers. Streamload, a San Diego-based company providing online storage services, is adding more than a terabyte a week of storage to its network to keep...
[July 28, 2006, 10:20]
IBM labs unveil nanotech storage 'punch card'
News In nanotechnology there is no one with more patents than IBM. IBM researchers have created a storage device that holds up to a trillion bits of information, or about 25 million textbook pages in a postage stamp-size area, as the push to find new...
[June 11, 2002, 8:44]
Who can meet the terabyte challenge?
Leader It is deeply unfashionable to admit it, but when used appropriately patents are still doing a good job. Iomega's latest wheeze, which uses nanotechnology to push DVD capacity to a potential 800GB, very nearly a terabyte, may and probably will, turn...
[May 26, 2005, 14:50]
UK memory breakthrough raises questions
News Keele High Density intends to commercialise the memory technologies and has applied for patents in connection with the innovations. Scientists at Keele University claim to have developed memory technologies that will dramatically increase computer...
[February 13, 2001, 16:45]
Intel plans flash makeover
News Intel has also licensed technology from Nanosys which owns patents for an inorganic molecule that can be used to store data. Samsung also is promoting its chips for code storage. Simultaneously, Intel will work to develop an alternative technology...
[February 23, 2004, 9:55]
Teaching old dogs new DVD tricks?
News Other technology giants hold patents in a rival advanced format called MPEG-4 AVC. As Sony Pictures notes, they don't.necessarily make a picture clearer, but they allow roughly the same picture quality to be created using only about half the...
[November 29, 2005, 12:05]
IBM names Palmisano as new chief executive
News IBM also generally files--and wins--more patents than any other company in the world. IBM also threatens EMC in storage. Those executives include Robert Moffat, who run's IBM's PC business; Bill Zeitler, head of the server group; Linda Stanford...
[January 30, 2002, 8:59]
