Have I said I love my flash drive recently? I love my flash drive!!
That said, from IP Biz Blog we learn that SanDisk and Ritek have settled their flash memory infringement litigation.
This settlement comes long after the United States Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the CAFC's favorable ruling for SanDisk on a procedural issue. As we've said before, breathe in, you win, breathe out, you lose, breathe in . . . .ITPro wrote:
Storage companies SanDisk and Ritek have settled their patent dispute which will see the two companies enter into an agreement on royalty bearing cross-licenses.
All further patent infringement litigation against Taiwan-based Ritek has also been dropped. The terms and conditions of the deal remain undisclosed.The deal will see the Taiwanese firm be the only manufacturer in its country to produce flash cards, USB flash drives and storage systems licensed by SanDisk.
As IP Biz earlier reported:
The U.S. Supreme Court on December 12, 2005 rejected an appeal of a decision by the CAFC made by digital media manufacturers (Ritek Corp., Memorex Products Inc. and Pretec Electronics Corp.) that are battling a patent infringement lawsuit filed by flash data storage card maker SanDisk Corp. The CAFC had ruled that District Court Judge Vaughn Walker had misconstrued the claims of the patent at issue and remanded to him for further proceedings. One of the many district court reversals on claim construction.
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