Patent Infringement in China - Not what you'd expect this time
In a rare move, a China based company has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. charging a U.S. company with patent infringement. Netac has sued PNY Technologies in the Eastern District Court in Texas over sales of flash-memory storage devices. Netac has successfully sued a few Chinese companies and also has a pending case against Sony Corp. Netac claims to have invented the flash memory driving using a USB interface, and holds U.S. Patent No. 6,795,327 which issued September 21, 2004.
For more on the lawsuit, see this article in China View.
We did an analysis on this at http://chinalawblog.typepad.com/chinalawblog/2006/02/man_bites_dog_c.html, which was picked up by the Wall Street Journal Blog, here: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/02/21/chinese-company-sues-us-firm-for-patent-infringement/
Posted by: Dan Harris | February 26, 2006 at 01:35 PM