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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 98.04+1.8%Dec 3 3:59 PM EST
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To: Dan3 who wrote (66280)2/20/2001 11:18:43 AM
From: richard surckla  Read Replies (3) of 93625
 
How did RMBS IP Join JEDEC Before RMBS?

From YAHOO by: xtcpw
02/20/01 08:46 am EST
Msg: 220595 of 220626

From the Electronic News article we know that Rambus disclosed their IP to some of
the JEDEC member companies some time after filing their April 1990 patent application
and prior to joining JEDEC in 1992.

... even before entering into the very first JEDEC meeting, Rambus shared its inventions
and its concepts with a number of the industry players under NDA (non-disclosure
agreements),” Kanadjian said.

Then, in their first meetings after joining JEDEC, they find that Rambus IP was already
showing up in a proposed JEDEC SDRAM standard. How did that happen? Clearly
Rambus didn't put it there.

From a Rambus business plan dated June 12, 1992:
“Finally, we believe that Sync DRAMs infringe on some claims in our filed patents

How did Rambus IP get into a proposed JEDEC SDRAM standard before Rambus was
even a JEDEC member? Surely none of the JEDEC member companies that had been
disclosed by Rambus violated their NDA and "borrowed" Rambus IP for the JEDEC
standard?

Why such behavior would be unethical and possibly legally actionable. And from the
outrage expressed by JEDEC and some of it's members in this article, surely none of
them could have engaged in such behavior.

You don't suppose the answer to this question is also the answer to why almost 50% of
the DRAM market have signed licenses with Rambus for SDRAM and DDR?
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