Nomaï, S.A. was a computer storage products manufacturer, based in Avranches

Avranches

Avranches is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. The inhabitants are called Avranchinais.-History:...

, France

France

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. It was founded in 1992 and acquired by Iomega

Iomega

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 in 1998. The company was listed on the Paris Bourse

Paris Bourse

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 with symbol NOMF.PA. Many companies including EMTEC

EMTEC

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, Maxell

Maxell

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, Memorex

Memorex

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, Letraset

Letraset

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, Fujifilm

Fujifilm

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, BASF, Verbatim

Verbatim Corporation

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, and Lexmark

Lexmark

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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 Scotland

Scotland

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, a factory in Albi, France and a sales office in the United States.

Iomega lawsuits

• In May 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
  Rhône-Poulenc
  -History of the company:The Company was founded in 1928 through the merger of Société des Usines Chimiques du Rhône from Lyon and Établissements Poulenc Frères from Paris founded by Étienne Poulenc, a 19th century Parisian apothecary and brought to prominence by his second and third sons Emile...
  
   (which included a 60000 sq ft (5,574.2 m²). floppy disk
  Floppy disk
  A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles...
  
   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 lawsuits

• In 1993, SyQuest Technology
  SyQuest Technology
  SyQuest Technology, Inc., now known as SYQT, Inc., was an early entrant into the removable hard disk market for personal computers. The company was started in 1982 by Syed Iftikar; it was named partially after himself because of a company meeting wherein it was decided that "SyQuest" ought to be a...
  
  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.