Stock Market News

Western Digital owes $315.7 million for infringing data security patent, US jury says

2024.10.18 16:35

By Blake Brittain

Data storage provider Western Digital (NASDAQ:) must pay $315.7 million in damages for violating a patent owner’s rights in data security technology, a jury in California federal court said on Friday.

The jury determined that several Western Digital self-encrypting hard drive products infringe a SPEX Technologies patent covering data encryption innovations, a SPEX attorney said in an email.

San Jose, California-based SPEX sued Western Digital in 2016. SPEX said it bought the patent at issue from Spyrus, a cryptography company that developed the technology for encrypting sensitive communications.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Western Digital office building is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., January 24, 2017.   REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

The lawsuit said Western Digital data storage devices including its Ultrastar, My Book and My Passport products infringed the patent. Western Digital denied the allegations.

In July, a different jury in the same Santa Ana, California, court said Western Digital owed more than $262 million to another company for infringing patents related to increasing hard drive storage capacity.



Source link

Related Articles

Back to top button