"These actions demonstrate SanDisk's long-term commitment to enforcing its patents, both to protect our investment in research and development by obtaining a fair return on that investment, and out of fairness to third-parties that participate in our patent licensing program," said E. Earle Thompson, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at SanDisk. "Our goal is to resolve these matters by offering the defendants the opportunity to participate in our patent licensing program for card and system technology. Otherwise, we will aggressively pursue these actions, seeking a prompt judicial resolution awarding damages, obtaining injunctive relief and banning importation of infringing product."
In the ITC action, SanDisk is suing numerous companies for infringement of five SanDisk patents, including:
- ACP-EP Memory
- A-Data
- Apacer
- Behavior Computer (d/b/a Emprex)
- Buffalo
- Chipsbank
- Corsair Memory
- Dane-Elec
- Edge
- Imation/Memorex
- Interactive Media (d/b/aKanguru)
- Kaser
- Kingston
- LG Electronics
- Phison Electronics
- PNY
- PQI
- Silicon Motion
- Skymedi
- Transcend
- TSR (d/b/a T.One)
- USBest
- Verbatim
- Welldone Company
- Zotek/Zodata (d/b/a Huke)
In the first Wisconsin District Court case, SanDisk is suing numerous companies for infringement of the five patents also at issue in the ITC complaint, including:
- ACP-EP Memory
- A-Data
- Apacer
- Behavior Computer (d/b/a Emprex)
- Buffalo
- Chipsbank
- Corsair Memory
- Dane-Elec
- Edge
- Imation/Memorex
- Interactive Media (d/b/a Kanguru)
- Kingston
- LG Electronics
- Phison Electronics
- PNY
- PQI
- Silicon Motion
- Skymedi
- Transcend
- TSR (d/b/a T.One)
- USBest
- Verbatim
- Welldone Company
- Zotek/Zodata (d/b/a Huke).
In the second Wisconsin District Court case, SanDisk is suing numerous companies for infringement of an additional two patents that are not involved in the ITC action or the first Wisconsin District Court case, including:
- A-Data
- Apacer
- Behavior Computer (d/b/a Emprex)
- Buffalo
- Dane-Elec
- Kingston
- Phison Electronics
- PQI
- PNY
- Skymedi
- Silicon Motion
- Transcend
- USBest
- Verbatim
- Zotek/Zodata (d/b/a Huke)
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is one of the world's largest suppliers of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, California, and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the United States.