Western Digital Liable for Infringing Spex Patent, Court Rules

In a recent legal development, Western Digital has been found to owe between $5 and $8.50 per unit for infringing on Spex’s data security patent. This assessment is based on a 2009 licensing deal that Spex had established with Kingston Technology. During proceedings in a California federal court, Spex’s president emphasized that Western Digital had no viable noninfringing alternatives when implementing hardware encryption in its storage devices. For further details, visit the full report.