A former Seagate Technology employee says the company destroyed evidence key to a patient infringement lawsuit filed against it.

"In a court document [PDF file] obtained by the New York Times that was filed late last month, the former employee, Paul A. Galloway, claimed in an affidavit that Seagate deliberately destroyed the source code pertaining to a disk drive that used Convolve's intellectual property and 'failed to preserve' Galloway's PC containing all of his work during development of the drive," writes Computerworld's Lucas Mearian.

"The nine-year-old patent infringement case alleges that Seagate misappropriated Convolve's Quick and Quiet technology, incorporating it as its own Sound Barrier Technology," Mearian writes.

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