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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 104.86-5.2%11:54 AM EST
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To: richard surckla who wrote (53314)9/14/2000 8:40:04 AM
From: Zeev Hed  Read Replies (6) of 93625
 
I think that The European suits have a much greater punch than the US injunctions. It is very simple, the European patent law grants the patent monopoly, and "priority", to the entity that first filed the patent, not the one that first invented the technology. Prior art (and I mean in the form of trade secrets used by companies without filing for patent protection) is not even an argument of priority. Thus, while in the US, the Dramurai might have had a chance if they could show (or doctor) lab books that disclosed some of the technology, in Europe (and in Japan), that argument does not fly. Thus the Dramurai's Jedec defense will not fly either. As I said before, RMBS has a very astute team managing their IP affairs.

What is funny is that in the US, big companies (the like of MU and Infineon, as well as a solid Japanese backed lobby) have been trying for years to get congress to change our priority to "the first to file" from the current "first to invent".

A group of independent inventors have been working against that "big companies" lobby for quite sometime to maintain the current state of the "first to invent". We lost the war on the issue of 17 years from the date of issue (now it is 20 years from the date of filing, no more "submarine patents")

Zeev
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