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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

RMBS 87.20

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Nov 20 3:59 PM EST

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To: Fiscally Conservative who wrote (36816)	1/30/2000 3:52:00 PM
From: froland	Read Replies (2) of 93625

Finallythere: One thing about patents is they are not considered strong until they have been successfully defended in court. Rambus has a large but to my knowledge legally untested patent portfolio. If the memory makers cooperate and can prove that technology existed as part of the "common knowledge" prior to Rambus patent filings, they can make a case for invalidating certain Rambus patents. This is where they have to pool their resources and show that certain Rambus patents should not have been granted because the technology was a prior part of the industrys "common pool of knowledge". Given the amounts of money at stake, I can understand why the memory makers would want to take the issue to court before paying out large sums of money as royalties. Both sides probably knew it would get down to this. Remember, QCOM didn't explode until after its patent portfolio was validated by the courts. froland.

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