TUESDAY, April 15, (News Locale) - Seagate Technology made good on its promise last month to start suing makers of flash drives should the nifty device get popular. The largest maker of computer hard drives filed a patent infringement lawsuit against STEC Inc, a maker of solid-state drives.
 

Last month Seagate CEO Bill Watkins had revealed that his company would drag SSD manufacturers to court should the sales of HDD notebooks start picking up. STEC appears to be the first target of Seagate.

Seagate filed the suit in the Federal District Court in the Northern District of California and contends that STEC has infringed on four of its patents. These patents relate to how the hard drives interface with computers in general.

Bill Watkins told the Wall Street Journal in an interview that his company had asked oyther makers to license their patents, "They have blatantly decided they don't have to," he added.

He added that Seagate was spending a fortune in research and development and would want to defend its patents.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that STEC had wowed to defend the infringement action aggressively. "STEC believes that Seagate's lawsuit is completely without merit and primarily motivated by competitive concerns rather than a desire to protect its intellectual property," the company said in a statement.
 

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