"They have acted with reckless and illegal behavior," said John Reimer, president and chief executive officer of Lexar. "For them to have not notified or told the standards body about these patents, only when the patents were being considered, reeks of antitrust in many regards."

http://tinyurl.com/32ucwq

The patent Sandisk was squeezing Lexar on.

http://tinyurl.com/2pg6xo

"Subject to Lexar’s representations and warranties relating to Lexar’s newly designed CompactFlashÔ and PC Cards, SanDisk has stipulated that these designs do not infringe SanDisk’s ‘987 Patent."

http://tinyurl.com/38mvqf

They now stand independent of each other

No one seems to have the ability to come up with a complete system. They all piece their offering together...with cross licensing deals or purchases....such as...Sandisk buying Msystems to get the base of FTL.

doni