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Nomaï, S.A. was a computer storage products manufacturer, based in
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sold products manufactured by Nomaï under OEM and distribution agreements. The company had three subsidiaries, a research and design facility in
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, a factory in
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, France and a sales office in the United States.


Lawsuits


Iomega

* In 1997, Iomega filed suit against Nomaï for patent infringement and related issues concerning Nomaï's XHD 100 ( Zip-compatible) floppy. A Paris court issued an injunction against Nomaï for making the product too similar in appearance to Iomega's Zip. * That injunction ended in September 1997 and Nomaï responded by completing the acquisition of RPS Media (which included a
floppy disk A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a ...
manufacturing plant in Albi, France). This factory was expected to greatly increase the production of the XHD media. * There were several other lawsuits filed by Iomega in the second half of 1997 in France, Germany and the U.S. * The lawsuits were only resolved in July 1998 when Iomega purchased a majority of Nomaï stock as well as the specific technology used to produce XHD and DUO media. * Iomega closed the Avranches factory in 1999 after getting into financial difficulty.


SyQuest

* In 1993,
SyQuest Technology SyQuest Technology, Inc. () was an early entrant into the hard disk drive market for personal computers. The company was founded on January 27, 1982 by Syed Iftikar who had been a founder of Seagate, along with Ben Alaimo, Bill Krajewski, Ani ...
filed suit against Nomaï for stealing technology and making similar data storage cartridges that work with the SyQuest 44 MB and 88 MB drives. * In 1997, SyQuest filed another suit against Nomaï for making similar data storage media. This suit was resolved much more rapidly and amicably than the Iomega suit, but SyQuest and Nomaï both had trouble afterwards.SyQuest & Nomai Settle Legal Differences
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nomai Computer companies of France Defunct computer hardware companies 1998 mergers and acquisitions Companies based in Normandy