electronics headquarters shenzhen guangdong province people s republic of china key people guoshun frank deng co founder products usb flash drives mp3 players hdd drives enclosures microcontroller units ssds memory cards website netac.com netac technology co ltd szse 300042 is a consumer electronics company based in shenzhen china . a chinese oem and odm 1 2 the company claims to have invented the usb flash drive . 3 contents 1 history 1.1 flash drive 2 products 3 patents 4 lawsuits 5 shenzhen coocaa network technology co ltd 6 production bases 7 references 8 external links history edit founded on 29 april 1999 by guoshun frank deng and cheng xiaohua the two worked for a year developing their first product an eight megabyte flash memory drive that deng christened the u disk . 4 flash drive edit on july 24 2002 netac was granted its first patent for an electronic flash memory external storage method and device . 5 at least 14 companies have since requested invalidation of this patent as the patented device has been anticipated by the combination of two references i.e. usb system architecture and the handbook of flash memory technology published in 1997 and such combination is obvious to those skilled in the art. 6 although the company claims to have invented the first usb flash drive in 1999 and submitted a chinese patent application for the device the same year the patent was granted and the product launched only in 2002 . 4 ibm had released an eight megabyte usb flash drive in late 2000 7 which preceded netac s offering to market by more than a year and a half . products edit as of 2009 netac s product line mainly consists of usb flash drives external hard disk drives mp3 players digital photo frames microcontroller units and sd cards . patents edit unlike many other chinese oems netac holds a number of patents . 8 by 2009 netac had filed for over 300 patents in the usa south korea singapore and the peoples republic of china . over 200 of those patent applications had been filed by 2005 . 8 patents held by netac include chinese patent no . zl99117225 .6 for an electronic flash memory external storage method and device . us patent no. 6 829 672 for an electronic flash memory external storage method and device . chinese patent no . zl02114797 .3 for a usb wireless modem south korean patent no. 583626 for a multifunction semiconductor storage device and method for booting up computer host singaporean patent no . sg119038 for an automatically executing method using semiconductor storage devices lawsuits edit intellectual property infringement is widespread in china 8 and netac has taken companies both in and outside of this nation to court in order to protect the monopoly its patents grant . companies it has sued include us based pny technologies 9 beijing s lenovo 10 and huaqi information digital technology co ltd shenzen s fuguanghui and xingzhidao 11 japan based sony and taiwan s acer and tai guen enterprise co. its 2006 lawsuit against pny technologies was the first time a chinese company filed patent infringement charges overseas . 3 shenzhen coocaa network technology co ltd edit a joint venture with skyworth shenzhen coocaa network technology co ltd provides free high definition movie and video download services . 12 netac has developed usb flash drives that in conjunction with usb port equipped skyworth televisions allow video to be played from the drive . production bases edit netac has a factory in nanshan lishan industrial park shenzhen . 13 references edit oem netac official site odm netac official site a b netac reaches settlement in us patent case china daily xinhua 2008 03 27 a b g. frank deng an ipr warrior leading a new industry netac official site netac timeline netac official website recent hot topics issues increased awareness of chinese entities to enforce their ipr xiaoguang yang zhongzi law office . ipo.org . undated . lenovo 8mb usb memory key overview lenovo official site a b c thinking for themselves the economist survey patents and technology oct 20th 2005 china goes a courtin money.cnn.com march 7 2006 12 17 pm est netac and huaqi settle suit jlm pacific epoch flash memory disk market under fire xinhua english 2006 10 17 13 31 skyworth and netac set up coocaa network technology co. ltd. jointly skyworth mobile official site factory netac official site external links edit netac official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title netac technology & oldid 725053976 categories electronics companies of chinacompanies established in 1999 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata 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