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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: FranW who wrote (48658)2/23/1998 8:27:00 PM
From: Spank  Read Replies (1) of 58324
 
There are some key paragraphs about the court ruling...

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"However, the Amsterdam Court's ruling on Iomega's light baffle
puts consumers at risk of inadvertently damaging their notebook Zip
drives which may result in unrecoverable data loss. This aspect of the
court's decision is a setback for consumers."
The light baffle in Iomega notebook Zip drives serves to protect
consumers from accidentally damaging the drive's heads by inserting an
inappropriate disk, such as a conventional 1.44 megabyte floppy disk,
into the drive. In reaching its Feb. 11 decision, that the XHD disk
was not compatible with notebook Zip drives, the U.S. District Court
for the Northern District of California found Iomega's argument about
the inclusion of the light baffle to protect Zip drives to be
compelling.
There is an increased risk that users will attempt to insert
floppy disks or other inappropriate disks into a notebook Zip drive
since the same bay is used, interchangeably in many notebook
computers, for floppy drives and Zip drives. The invention of the
light baffle predates any knowledge on the part of Iomega concerning
the XHD reflector. In fact, Iomega filed a U.S. patent application on
the invention prior to ever learning about Nomai's intent to use a
concave reflector.
"Any claim that our light baffle design was implemented to
prevent competition is simply untrue," said Keating. "The design of
the light baffle into Zip notebook drives was found to be necessary
for proper discrimination in the slimmer profile drives to prevent
possible danger caused by inserting foreign objects into the drive."
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