Hitachi Has No Patent Deal With Read-Rite: 9th Circ.

By Erin Coe

Law360, New York (September 01, 2010, 4:47 PM ET) -- A federal appeals court has backed a lower court’s finding that Hitachi Ltd. did not have a binding patent licensing agreement related to hard-disk drives with bankrupt Read-Rite Corp. and that the electronics maker waited too long to try to preserve its rights.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday agreed with a district court’s affirmance of a bankruptcy court’s judgment that found in favor of Western Digital Corp., which bought nearly all of the assets of hard drive maker Read-Rite for...
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