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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 95.82-3.6%3:59 PM EST
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To: gnuman who wrote (47290)7/16/2000 12:13:25 AM
From: NightOwl  Read Replies (2) of 93625
 
Thanks for the ftp cite, I will certainly check it out, but I am sure the legal system has several ways of avoiding such idiotic injunctive "relief" while the litigation is pending.

And I agree that this will likely be ancient history in three years. The 10 year estimate was my "conservative" measure of how long it would take for this to be litigated as a "death struggle" patent challenge, assuming it went from the PTO to the Supreme Court at least once.

And an anti trust action starting at either the FTC or District Court, particularly in this area with practically an entire industry involved as a party or witness, could easily take just as long, barring a settlement.

I don't think there's much chance any definitive resolution of these issues would be heard by the ITC. I will use your link to check its jurisdiction, but there seem to be too many US companies, US fabs and US OEMs involved to enable the ITC to provide a complete remedy.

It looks like Hitachi may have agreed to settle simply to (a) avoid giving the ITC a chance to make any case law on the issues before its taken up by a normal administrative/judicial process; and (b) to get an actual agreement in which the amount of RMBS demands for SDRAM/DDR tribute are set out for use as future evidence.

At the end of the day, its the amount of these demands that has to be the real crux of the matter. The Memory guys had better have a very good argument that they are out of line with the value of the IP involved. I have to figure they can do this.

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