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WD told to pay half a billion in patent damages before company splits
- bell-cot 2y agoSounds like yet another Patent Office "d'oh, obvious to anyone skilled in the art" failure. Back in '97 (date of the patent), hard drive technology had already been through multiple generations of using Moore's Law to move yet more had-previously-been-external functionality onto the PCB's of HDD's. Similar with a wide variety of other computer products.