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To: richard surckla who wrote (40520)	4/20/2000 8:15:00 PM
From: Barry Grossman	Read Replies (1) of 93625

ITC to hear Rambus' patent-infringement suit against Hitachi By Jack Robertson Semiconductor Business News (04/20/00, 12:06:15 PM EDT) semibiznews.com WASHINGTON -- The International Trade Commission, as expected, agreed Wednesday to investigate the complaint of Rambus Inc. that Hitachi Ltd. and Sega Enterprises Ltd. have violated the U.S. firm's patents on synchronous memory and high performance bus interfaces (see March 23 story). The ITC has appointed Debra Morriss, an administrative law judge, to handle the case. She will make a preliminary decision on whether any Rambus patents have been infringed. The full commission will then make a final determination. The process usually takes about a year. Mountain View, Calif.-based Rambus is seeking to have Hitachi DRAMs and microprocessors barred from import into the United States due to the alleged patent violations. Sega was named in the ITC case because the electronic game maker uses Hitachi microprocessors in its latest Dreamcast players. Rambus has also filed a patent infringement suit against Hitachi in the Wilmington, Del., district federal court. So far, only Hitachi has been sued, although industry observers said virtually all memory and microprocessor chip makers use the synchronous timing and interface technology that Rambus claims it has patented. Hitachi last month filed a counteraction in the federal court charging that the synchronous technology was invented and widely used long before the Rambus patents were filed. The Japanese firm also claimed that Rambus got its synchronous technology by participating in the industry Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (Jedec) standards deliberations in the mid-1990s. Hitachi said Rambus then left the Jedec discussions and used the data to form the basis of its patent applications.

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