The litigation ledger - Creative Technology, Inc. vs. Aureal, Inc; EMC vs. HP - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article

Emedia Professional, Feb, 2000 by Michelle Manafy

Creative Technology, Inc. vs. Aureal, Inc.

Aureal has defeated allegations by Creative Technology, which asserted that Aureal's chips had infringed a patent covering Creative's sound technology. Aureal's product, Vortex, creates the illusion of 3D sound from two speakers and competes with Creative's SoundBlaster boards. Creative is appealing the verdict, and Aureal has filed a countersuit.

EMC Corporation vs. Hewlett-Packard Corporation

U.S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Taureo has made permanent a preliminary injunction issued on July 8, 1999 regarding the nomenclature of storage products from Hewlett-Packard and EMC. The injunction prohibits HP from infringing on EMC's registered trademarks in the naming and marketing of HP products. Judge Tauro also ordered HP to compensate EMC for its court costs. The lawsuit, filed on May 25, 1999, was in response to HP's introduction of storage products intended to compete with EMC, named HP SureStore E Disk Array MC256 and referred to by HP as E MC256. The injunction prohibits HP from using the letters MC in the names of any of HP's storage products.