WD accused of encryption IP filch
Enova Technology slaps Initio too
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Western Digital is being sued by Taiwan's Enova Technology for alleged unauthorised use of its encryption technology in My Book and My Passport external drive products.
The lawsuit, filed in Delaware, also cites Initio Technology which makes an encryption/decryption controller device.
It refers to two US patents; 7,136,995, issued in 2006, and 7,386,734, filed in 2008. The '995 patent describes a cryptographic device and, with the '734 patent, refers to real time data encryption/decryption by devices such as disk drives without materially compromising their operational speed.
Enova says it developed the first real time encryption/decryption ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit). It meant disk drive products could have hardware encryption/decryption added without slowing down the effective speed of disk writes and reads.
Enova was founded in 2000 by Shuning Wan, the inventor of the '995 patent and one of the four inventors of the '734 patent. You can read the patents here (pdf).
Enova's filing asserts that "the defendants have ridden on the coattails of Enova's significant investments in R&D and market development by infringing Enova's patents, all to Enova's damage". Initio's INIC-1607E controller is specifically mentioned in the suit as are various WD My Book and My Passport products, some of which are said to use the Initio controller.
The suit seeks a declaration of Enova's patent ownership, an injunction to stop WD and Initio infringing the patents, damages not less than reasonable royalties over the period of infringement, and Enova's and its lawyers' costs. Enova is seeking a trial by Jury.
WD has not issued any comment on this legal action and wasn't immediately able to comment. ®
COMMENTS
im sure its not involved, but just in case
i been f ighting this worm longer than anyone due to my system and beyond as its command and control center. one thing i learned about it through millions of experiements is that this worm encrypted each device with firmware and also interaction with the BUS that all data is transmitted througth. this also is linked to driver alterations.
so far, being a limited backdoor, this is what it links to first.
http://www.pcsympathy.com/2009/03/18/rootkit-code-to-exploit-major-intel-chip/
then for me, the hub and operating system and drives.
Its obvious
>Can anyone shed some light on that for me?
Successful product ==> Cashflow ==> parasites
Ha ha ha ha haaa haaaa
Patents kinda remind me of kids in school. They'd think something up and someone across the room would think up the same thing without even knowing they existed. The other kid would hear about it come over and it would pretty much go like this:
Kid 1: I thought of that before you, it's mine.
Kid 2: But I didn't even know about that, I thought of it as well.
Kid 1: Well I thought of it first so it's mineeeeee...... so ha ha ha ha haaa haaaa.
That's what patents remind me of. Should I wait for the world to grow up some more?
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