Ex-employee says Seagate violated law

From CNET News.com: A decade-long lawsuit pitting a tiny company called Convolve against Seagate Technology has taken an unexpected turn after a whistle-blower claimed that Seagate had appropriated Convolve technology and later destroyed evidence in the case.

The whistle-blower, a former Seagate employee named Paul A. Galloway, has provided what is described as "an eyewitness account" accusing Seagate of taking hard-drive technology from Convolve and incorporating it into its own products, according to documents filed recently with a federal court in Manhattan.

The court filings include claims by Galloway that Seagate, the world's largest producer of computer hard drives, tampered with evidence tied to Convolve's nearly 10-year-old patent infringement case against the company.

The allegations are detailed in an affidavit filed by one of Convolve's lawyers as part of an effort to reopen the voluminous court record to include testimony from Galloway.

A conference on the case has been scheduled for January 20 by Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, but it is not clear whether Convolve's motion will be considered at that session.

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