Defendant

Quanta Storage, Inc.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2006
Top venue
W.D. Wisconsin
1 case

Company profile

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Quanta Storage, Inc. (TPEX: 6188, often "QSI") is a Taiwanese storage-device and electronics manufacturer founded in February 1999 and headquartered in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. It was spun out of Quanta Computer Inc. and later listed on the Taipei Exchange (2007); Quanta Computer remains the largest shareholder at about 29.8% (Investing.com), so QSI is an affiliated but separately traded company rather than a wholly owned unit. MarketScreener and stockanalysis.com report roughly 4,000 employees; PitchBook puts trailing-twelve-month revenue near US$291 million, and Simply Wall St has shown market capitalization around NT$22 billion. Headcount and revenue figures vary by source and period and should be treated as approximate.

Products / operations. QSI designs and manufactures slim-form-factor optical disc drives (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, combo and rewritable DVD drives) for notebook and desktop PC OEM/ODM customers, and was historically Taiwan's largest slim-type ODD maker. It has diversified into automotive electronics (car audio hosts, car DVD changers, rear-seat displays, navigation head units), external/portable hard drives and USB 3.0 drives, SSD products, USB-C power delivery, NAS/DAS storage, and industrial automation/robotics, alongside electronics manufacturing services. It operates through Taiwan, mainland China and Southeast Asia centers, selling into China, the U.S., Japan and Europe.

Litigation posture. This is an operating company, not an NPE or shell licensor. It appears once in the tracked data, as a defendant, with zero plaintiff filings — consistent with a manufacturer being attacked rather than asserting patents.

Notable case. The single tracked suit is Ricoh Company, Ltd. v. Quanta Computer Inc. et al., filed 2006-08-24 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (not a plaintiff-friendly ED Tex venue), in which Ricoh asserted CD-RW/DVD+RW optical recording, formatting and write-strategy patents against QSI and Quanta affiliates. The court construed claims of U.S. Patents 6,631,109, 6,172,955, 5,063,552 and 6,661,755; a 2009 jury returned a $14.5 million award against Quanta, a Federal Circuit appeal addressed contributory infringement and software/method-claim issues, and the parties settled and dismissed the case in April 2011. The technology at issue mirrors QSI's core optical-drive business. (A separate LaserDynamics v. Quanta Computer dispute over the same optical-drive line is likewise reported in external sources.)

Ricoh Company, Ltd. v. Quanta Computer Inc. et al.

settled
Docket:
3:06-cv-00462
Filed:
2006-08-24
Terminated:
2011-04-13

Ricoh Company, Ltd. asserted US 6,631,109 and related patents against Quanta Computer, Quanta Storage, and others in the Western District of Wisconsin. The district court held claims 1 and 4 of the '109 patent invalid as obvious; after appeal and remand, a jury awarded Ricoh $14.5 million on other patents, and the case settled in 2011.