PQI judged to pay NT$16 million damages in losing patent suit

Post time:09-08 2010 Source:DIGITIMES Author:
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A local Taiwan court has ruled in favor of China-based Netac Technology in a patent infringement lawsuit against Taiwan-based memory module maker Power Quotient International (PQI).
 
The court determined that PQI's CoolDrive U310-series flash drive infringed a Taiwan-issued NAND flash patent held by Netac, and therefore it should pay damages of NT$16 million (US$500,000).
 
The lawsuit against PQI was filed in Taiwan in October 2007 on behalf of Netac, asserting infringement of one patent (Taiwan Patent No. I237264) regarding a technology for data partitioning.
 
PQI has claimed that the company already stopped producing and selling the USB drives. PQI plans to appeal the ruling, the company added.

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