- Western Digital was ordered to pay $ 316 million in October 2024 for patent violation
- Now another $ 237 million have been added in interest
- WD configured to divide your SSD and HDD businesses
Western Digital (WD) has received only seven days to cough $ 553 million in a patent infraction case.
The strong penalty occurs when a jury from California found WD guilty in October 2024 of infringing data encryption patents owned by Spex Technologies; At that time, the fine was $ 316 million smaller to cover the damage.
The district judge James Selna added another $ 237 million in interest last month, which raised the total to $ 553 million.
WD must pay $ 550 million in seven days
The San José Data Storage Company had requested a delay in the payment pending more decisions in the Court, but Judge Selna expressed his concern that WD could use a restructuring movement to alter how much he had to pay, therefore, therefore, therefore, demanding that the company be resolved in just a week.
“The court has concerns about the possible corporate restructuring, particularly given the fact that the ruling is only against Western Digital Technologies, Inc.,” said Selna.
This could be indicative of the pending division of Western Digital, whereby your flash Nand storage business would go out under the Sandisk brand and its hard disk operations would remain under the WD brand. The company expects the end of the demerge to happen in a week, on February 21.
Spex said that it was not sure “which new company will be responsible for satisfying the trial or if it will be divided between the new companies, or if the new company (or companies) would be sufficiently capitalized to cover the trial.”
Spex, based in California, also noted that WD has another demand for storage patents related to Mr. Technologie of Germany.
At that time, the western digital lawyer Douglas Lumish of Latham & Watkins declared (through PakGazette): “MRT lawyers have granted a false loan, to a rather magnificent measure, to Dr. Suess for the work of thousands of thousands of [Western Digital] Engineers for decades and throughout the planet. “
Techradar Pro He has asked Western Digital for a comment on Spex patent violation demand, but we don’t receive an immediate response.
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