Plaintiff Lake Cherokee HDD Technologies Suing Several Storage Companies

Plaintiff Lake Cherokee HDD Technologies, LLC filed a complaint on September 5, 2013 for patent infringement vs. Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.; Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.; Seagate Technology LLC; Seagate Technology International; Toshiba Corporation; Toshiba America Electronic Components; Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.; Toshiba AsiaPac Pte., Ltd.; Toshiba Information Equipment (Philippines), Inc.; and Western Digital Technologies, Inc., on the State’s District Court for the Eastern District Texas, Marshall Division.

Lake Cherokee owns the inventions described and claimed in United States Patent Nos. 5,844,738 entitled "Synchronous Read Channel Employing a Sequence Detector with Progammable Detector Levels" and 5,978,162 entitled "Synchronous Read Channel Integrated Circuit Employing a Channel Quality Circuit for Calibration".

Defendants have used plaintiff’s patented technology in products that they make, use, import, sell, and offer to sell, and have contributed to or induced others to infringe the Patents.

Lake Cherokee seeks damages for patent infringement from defendants for making, using, selling, or offering to sell, and from contributing to and inducing others to make, use, sell, or offer to sell, the technology claimed by the patents without plaintiff’s permission