Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Kingston Technology Unable To Shake $7.5M Jury Award

Fountain Valley-based memory giant Kingston Technology was unable to reduce a $7.5M jury award for patent infringement on a "swiveling" cover for a USB flash memory device, after a California federal judge rejected the company's legal challenge to the jury's findings. The award--made to a company called Pavo Solutions LLC--came after a jury trial in March, where Pavo had sought $15M in damages for Kingston's use of a swiveling USB flash memory cover. Pavo is based in South Korea. The original lawsuit had claimed that Kingston had made "tens of millions of dollars in profits and $233 million in sales" from those USB flash memory devices with those swiveling covers.