New-Tech Europe Magazine | July 2017

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Rohde & Schwarz Test and Measurement Division under new leadership

Effective July 1, 2017, Andreas Pauly, who was previously Vice President Signal Generators, Audio Analyzers and Power Meters, has taken over as Executive Vice President of the Test and Measurement Division at Rohde & Schwarz. Consequently, he was also appointed to the board of directors.

Vice President of the Test and Measurement Division. During this time, he significantly contributed to the development of the Test and Measurement Division and created the basis for its continuing success as the strongest Rohde & Schwarz division. Andreas Pauly joined Rohde & Schwarz in 1996 as a software engineer. In 2003, he assumed his first managerial position in the company and in 2015 he was appointed Vice President Signal Generators, Audio Analyzers and Power Meters. Mr. Pauly advanced the expansion of the microwave product portfolio

Andreas Pauly, 47, succeeds Roland Steffen, who will retire at the end of 2017. Until that point in time, Mr. Steffen will support his successor as he settles into his new position. Roland Steffen has been with Rohde & Schwarz for 40 years, 14 of which as Executive

Andreas Pauly

and continued his business unit’s success story.

Litigation Against Western Digital Corporation

TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Memory Corporation today filed a petition with the Tokyo District Court against Western Digital Corporation, a U.S. company, and its subsidiary Western Digital Technologies, Inc. (collectively, “WD”) (NASDAQ: WDC), seeking a provisional disposition order for an injunction against acts of unfair competition, and also brought suit for a permanent injunction, damages and payment of 120 billion yen, alleging violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, among other things. The lawsuit states, as detailed in Toshiba’s June 2, 2017 press release, “Update on Status of Third-party Investment in the Memory Business,” that WD has continually interfered with the bid process related to the sale of TMC. Citing joint venture agreements between Toshiba and SanDisk LLC (including its affiliates, “SanDisk”), the lawsuit also says that WD has exaggerated its consent right – in both public statements and private communications to bidders and others involved in the sale process – in order to interfere with the sale of TMC which does not hold the ownership interests in joint venture companies co-owned with SanDisk. The complaint goes on to state that proceeding with the sales process for TMC does not violate any consent rights held by WD; WD’s claims are

false, designed only to interfere with the sale process, and have damaged Toshiba and TMC. Toshiba and TMC have filed litigation in Japan because WD has improperly obtained Toshiba and TMC’s trade secrets by transferring employees of SanDisk to WD who have access to confidential information of Toshiba and TMC through their participation in the collaboration between SanDisk and Toshiba/TMC. Toshiba considers that WD’s actions are damaging to both Toshiba and TMC, violate the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (Article 2(1) (iv), (vii), (viii), (xv)), and are tortious acts under the Civil Code (Article 709), Toshiba and TMC have filed the petition for a provisional disposition order seeking an injunction to put an end to WD’s damaging actions, and a suit seeking permanent injunction and damages. In addition to intentionally interfering with the TMC sale process via its false claims, the suit says that Toshiba did not object to WD access to information related to the joint venture and development under the assumption that WD will be entering into a contract in respect of information access, however WD had rejected to such contract. Accordingly, to prevent further damage to TMC, TMC believes it has no choice but to block WD’s ability to access such information, starting today.

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