Following the recent trend of legal battles and squabbles in the consumer electronics market, Seagate is adding its fists to the mix. Seagate CEO Bill Watkins stated last month that if sales of competitor SSD's (solid state drives) continued to climb his company would file lawsuits against the incriminating companies. True to his word Seagate has filed a lawsuit against STEC's SSD product lineup stating that it violated four Seagate held patents in terms of, error correction, memory-backup and storage interface. Watkins believes that in light of SSD popularity companies have been taking shortcuts to get their products out the door and in the process infringing on Seagate's intellectual property. Seagate claims that it has tried talking with these companies to have them legally license the patents but the companies refused, STEC claims that no such talks ever took place. I'll be adding this to the laundry list of other technological related lawsuits to keep an eye on in the coming months.