Western Digital to Buy Hitachi HDD Business
Western Digital and Hitachi, Ltd. announced that Western Digital will acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $4.3 billion.
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Digital Video Applications Drive Hard Disk Market
In-Stat announced it forecasts that hard disk drive shipments will reach over 1 billion units by 2014.
DVD6C Seeks to Collect Unpaid DVD Royalties
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that its authorized licensor, Toshiba, has filed demands for arbitration to collect royalties allegedly due under DVD6C patent licenses with Axiom Technologies Manufacturing Pte Ltd. (Singapore), GDD Manufacturing S.r.l. (Italy) and Premium Disc Corporation (Canada).
DVD6C Settles Royalty Dispute with QOL
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that its authorized licensor, Toshiba Corporation, has reached a settlement of its arbitration claim for unpaid royalties allegedly due from Quantum Optical Laboratories S.A.S. (QOL) (France) under the DVD6C patent license.
DVD6C Settles Royalty Dispute with Duplium
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that its authorized licensor, Toshiba Corporation, has reached a settlement of its arbitration claim for unpaid royalties allegedly due from Duplium Corp. (Canada) under the DVD6C patent license.
Antitrust Suit Launched Over LCD Display Price Fixing
The New York State Attorney General announced that it has filed an antitrust action against several major technology companies for allegedly illegally fixing prices for Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screens used in computers, televisions and cell phones. According to the statement, the lawsuit seeks to recover damages suffered from 1996 to 2006 by New York …
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Lawyers Go After Optical Disc Drive Producers
Hagens Berman LLP announced that the judge presiding over a class action lawsuit, accusing various optical disc drive manufacturers of price fixing, rejected a motion to postpone evidence gathering while the defendants address a Department of Justice (DOJ) criminal investigation.
Lawyers Pursue Evidence in Optical Disc Drive Lawsuit
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP announced that it continues to pursue evidence in a nationwide class action lawsuit accusing large manufacturers of optical disc drives used in CD, DVD and Blu-ray players of price fixing. According to the statement, the civil suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in California (April 6, 2010, docket …
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DVD6C Seeks to Collect Patent Royalties
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that on January 15, 2010, Toshiba, the authorized licensor for DVD6C, filed demands for arbitration to collect royalties allegedly due under DVD6C patent licenses with Duplium Corporation (Canada), Advanced Duplication Services LLC (USA), MAF Diskettes s.r.l. (Italy) and Bestdisc Technology Corporation (Taiwan).
DVD6C Terminates License Agreement with Infodisc Taiwan
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that it has terminated its patent license agreement with Infodisc Technology Co., Ltd. (Taiwan) effective as of April 15, 2010.
DVD-ROM and CD-R: The Compatibility Question Answered
As the first generation of DVD-ROM drives ushered in a brand-new day in high-density optical media storage, the same drives seemed to spell doom for die-hard CD-R users, who harbored a well-founded fear that they might have to abandon their investments in CD-R hardware and media and migrate to the new technology.