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SPEX Technologies, Inc v. Western Digital Corporation et al

  1. October 15, 2024

    Western Digital Had No Way Around Patent, Spex Chief Says

    Western Digital owes between $5 and $8.50 per unit for infringing Spex's data security patent based on Spex's 2009 licensing deal with Kingston Technology, Spex's president told California federal jurors Tuesday, noting that Western Digital had no noninfringing alternative to implement hardware encryption in its storage devices. 

  2. October 11, 2024

    Spex Expert Pushed On Differences In Western Digital's Drives

    Western Digital's counsel on Friday challenged a Spex Technologies expert witness on his testimony that Western Digital's drives lift Spex's data encryption patent, showing California federal jurors that the drives in question don't allow for the type of communication contemplated by Spex's invention.

  3. October 10, 2024

    Western Digital Lifted Spex's Data Security IP, Expert Says

    Western Digital's My Book and Ultrastar storage devices infringe features in Spex Technologies' data security patent, including hardware encryption and a means of allowing a host computer to request and receive information from the device once it's plugged in, an expert witness testified during the infringement trial Thursday in California federal court.

  4. October 09, 2024

    Kingston Paid Royalties For SPEX's Data Security IP, Jury Told

    The founder of Spyrus Inc., which assigned its data security patents to SPEX Technologies, Wednesday told California federal jurors in the infringement trial against Western Digital that Kingston Technology paid a royalty rate of $20 per flash drive sold to license the patent and never challenged its validity.

  5. October 08, 2024

    Western Digital Owes $334M Over Data Security IP, Jury Told

    Hard disk drive behemoth Western Digital owes up to $334 million for selling portable data security storage devices that infringe a SPEX Technologies patent, SPEX's attorney told California federal jurors during opening statements Tuesday, while defense counsel said the claimed invention has been in the public domain for years.

  6. November 25, 2019

    Western Digital Escapes Data Security Patent Suit

    SPEX Technologies Inc.'s infringement litigation over its data security patent has splintered over the last week, as Western Digital beat the suit against it, a Toshiba unit settled and another company lost its bid to escape or invalidate the patent.

  7. September 28, 2016

    Toshiba, Western Digital Named In Data Security IP Suits

    Spyrus Inc. patent holder SPEX Technologies Inc., is going after the likes of Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. and Western Digital Corp. over alleged patent infringement with flash drives, hard drives and other data security devices with the filing of at least six suits in California federal court this week.