Intellectual Property
Jun. 24, 2025
Federal judge slashes $550M Western Digital patent verdict to $1
U.S. District Judge James V. Selna upheld a jury's finding that Western Digital infringed a hardware encryption patent but sharply reduced the $550 million damages award after concluding the plaintiff failed to apportion damages to specific products.
A jury's patent verdict against Western Digital Technologies -- which totaled more than $550 million -- was reduced to just $1 on Monday after a judge found that, although the company could not evade liability at this stage, the jury's damages award failed to properly apportion damages to the allegedly infringing hardware.
Last year, the jury in Santa Ana found that several of Western Digital's data storage devices infringed on patented hardware-based encryption techno...
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