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Technology Stocks : RAMBUS (Nasdaq: RMBS) - THE EAGLE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Norman who wrote (774)	1/23/2000 11:01:00 AM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2039

Yo - Glenn, I do not know about royalties being paid back on 10 years of some DRAM production, the "priority date" (1990 ) might be important in determining "the first to invent" and thus the validity of the claims in the 1999 patents relative to DRAM manufactured (and "invented" by the industry in the 1990 to 1999 period), but typically, royalties are paid "for the life of the claims" and thus would be due (if the claims are held to have priority on the body of development in the "submarine period") from the date of issue of the patent. That is not always the case, particularly if prior to issuance of the patent discussions under appropriate disclosure documents were carried out between RMBS and manufacturers, and as a result of what was disclosed in these discussions the manufacturers improved their products to include RMBS' pending IP. If that was the case, there is room for treble damages on production that can be shown to infringe on that IP from that disclosure on (on the ground of "wonton infringement", breach of the non disclosure agreement etc.) Zeev