History (1995): Conner Peripherals Sues IBM
For patents reducing power consumption and heat on HDDs
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 19, 2021 at 2:31 pmLawsuits between HDD manufacturers have riddled the industry since the beginning.
This time it’s Conner Peripherals (San Jose, CA) which has filed a complaint vs. IBM Corp. with the US District Court in the Southern District of New York to bar the manufacture and the sale in US of disk drives and products that incorporate Conner’s patented power management technology.
It extends battery life and reduces power consumption and heat. Included is this category are IBM’s portable and notebook ThinkPads and certain desktop and workstations, as well as 3.5- inch and 2.5-inch HDDs.
IBM has already dismissed the allegations, saying that it has filed its own suit vs. Conner for 11 IBM storage technology patents.
Thus, the settlement seems likely to end up as a cross-licensing agreement.
This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue 87, published on April 1995.
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