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Faegre & Benson Helps Secure Win for Seagate in Patent Trial
January 17th, 2009
A California jury on Tuesday December 23, found that a Siemens patent asserted against Seagate's hard disc drives was invalid based on anticipation and obviousness. The jury's verdict represents a complete defense verdict of no liability on Siemens' claim for patent infringement. Siemens had originally sought damages of over $1 billion, but a series of court rulings reduced Siemens' claim for damages to $160 million by the close of trial. Siemens sued Seagate in 2006 in the Central District of California, alleging that all Seagate disk drives since 2000 have infringed a patent on a particular type of sensor used in read heads for hard disc...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-01-17)
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