When Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an institution synonymous with innovation, sued several leading hard drive manufacturers for patent infringement, all but one of them played it safe and settled.
The lone holdout was Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, which argued MIT’s patent was overbroad and not all that innovative in the first place. An appeals court has now validated Hitachi’s gamble and invalidated MIT’s lucrative patent.
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