Facebook, Motorola, Others Sued over Memory Storage Tech
Patent troll targeting top tech companies in lawsuit.
Motorola Mobility, Adobe, LinkedIn, Facebook, Citigroup, Orbitz, Morgan Stanley and UBS Financial Services are being targeted by Parallel Iron, which alleges that its storage system patent has been violated.
The patent "Methods and systems for a storage system" describes a redundant storage system in an on-line transaction processing environment with multiple switches and a management system that can detect errors, generate messages based on those errors, initiate a backup, and deactivate affected memory sections automatically. The patent covers HDDs, cached disk arrays, as well as solid state media as storage devices.
The patent has been revised twice since its original publication in March of 2007 and was transferred from the inventor Ring Technology to Parallel Iron in 2010. The infringement claim does not mention any specific products that violate the patent, but Parallel Iron is asking the court for an injunction to keep the defendants from further infringement. As usual, Parallel Iron is also asking for damages, costs, expenses, and prejudgment and post-judgment interest.
"We don't actually know if there's infringement, but these giant tech companies must be using this extremely broad patent somewhere."
-This is my understanding.
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Last time I checked Morgan Stanley, UBS and Citigroup were banks, not manufacturers of hard drives
That'll send a clear message to other would-be patent troll companies out there.
But... that's just my opinion
Apple?
I think it should be just the law department and the highest executives, since they are the ones that in the end give the orders and prepare the troll lawsuits.
the whole system is flawed...what did you expect....they need to get rid of it
Doesn't have to be the whole staff, just the lawyers those damn lawyers cause all this trouble and they take most all the money too.
when they are the largest shareholder of the company in violation that makes them the majority OWNER.
Agreed. Oh, and not shot; that's too quick. Come on, what would be a suitable 'reward' for all their 'hard work'?