Hitachi GST sues Chinese disk drive maker31 December 2004
The hard disk drive manufacturing joint venture between Hitachi Ltd. and IBM said on Wednesday it has sued Chinese firm Magicstor Inc., saying it had made multiple patent infringements.
In the suit filed in United States District Court, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies seeks monetary damages and a permanent injunction barring Magicstor from making and selling the allegedly infringing products.
A spokeswoman at Magicstor, located in the interior Chinese city of Guiyang, had no immediate comment.
The suit names Magicstor, its Chinese parent company, GS Magic Inc. and California-based Riospring Inc., according to a statement released by Hitachi GST.
According to its Web site, GS Magicstor is a hard disk drive maker that was founded in 2002 "as the first small form factor manufacturer with its own intellectual property rights."
The filing of patent infringement lawsuits in the United States against Chinese firms has become a relatively common strategy by plaintiffs wary of using China's fledgling patent protection system.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) the world's biggest contract maker of semiconductor chips, is using the tactic in its lawsuit against Shanghai-based rival Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) .
Last year, Cisco Systems , the world's biggest maker of routers and switches used in telecoms networks, also used a U.S.-based lawsuit when it accused Huawei Technologies, China's largest telecoms equipment maker, of copyright infringement.
Source: Reuters via Yahoo
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