Buffalo Halts Sales of Flash Drives in USA (Blames SanDisk)

If you were hoping to get your hands on one of the new Buffalo Super High Speed Type-R flash drives, you may not want to hold your breath for them to make it to the US. Buffalo is being forced to halt all sales of USB flash drives, MMS memory cards, and Compact Flash devices in the US. It seems that SanDisk thinks that they are infringing on some patents by the controllers in their flash memory devices.

Buffalo isn't the only company that has been impacted by the lawsuit. The three lawsuits that were filed are hitting about 50 different companies that hit almost all of the big name memory companies such as Kingston, PNY, Corsair, Edge, and A-Data to name a few. Buffalo released a press statement and noted that it is confident that its suppliers will prove that the patents are invalid, unenforceable, and/or not infringed. To make sure that things don't get out of hand, they have agreed to halt the import of these devices until it all gets straightened out.