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Title: WD Escapes Half a Billion in Patent Damages as Judge Trims Award To $1

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/24/19252...

Western Digital has succeeded in having the sum it owed from a patent
infringement case reduced from $553 million down to just $1 in post-trial
motions, when the judge found the plaintiff's claims had shifted during the
course of the litigation. From a report: The storage biz was held by a
California jury to have infringed on data encryption patents owned by SPEX
Technologies Inc in October, relating to several of its self-encrypting hard
drive products. WD was initially told to pay $316 million in damages, but
District Judge James Selna ruled the company owed a further $237 million in
interest charges earlier this year, bringing the total to more than half a
billion dollars. In February, WD was given a week to file a bond or stump up
the entire damages payment. Selna granted Western Digital's post-trial motion
to reduce damages, writing that "SPEX's damages theory changed as certain
evidence and theories became unavailable" and there was "insufficient
evidence from which the Court could determine a reasonable royalty."

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