SanDisk filed three patent infringement actions against 25 companies that manufacture, sell and import USB flash drives, CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, MP3/media players and other removable flash storage products, the company announced Wednesday. The actions -- two filed in the United States District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin and one in the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) --allege that the companies involved have infringed various SanDisk system-level patents. They seek damages and a permanent injunction as well as a permanent exclusion order from the ITC banning importation of the products into the United States. "These actions demonstrate SanDisk's long-term commitment to enforcing its patents, both to protect our investment in research and development by obtaining a fair return on that investment, and out of fairness to third-parties that participate in our patent licensing program," said E. Earle Thompson, chief intellectual property counsel at the Milpitas, Calif.-based SanDisk.

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