Last April, Seagate sued SSD manufacturer STEC, charging that STEC had violated four of its patents relating to error correction, memory-backup systems, and storage interfaces with computers. However, late last week STEC announced that Seagate had dropped its lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit was dropped after “extensive discovery and evaluation of STEC’s intellectual property and technology.” No money was exchanged and no licensing of technology occurred. In other words, Seagate realized it made a mistake.