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To: Dan3 who wrote (39037)	3/29/2000 12:59:00 PM
From: Orion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Dan3, You are definitively biased, as a Bear you selected this defence of Hitachi. Then as a Bull I will select this one (excerpt of the same article)It says: "By reason of Rambus? misconduct relating to standard-setting activities and organizations, including but not limited to JEDEC, if one or more of the Patents-in-Suit cover the JEDEC standard, Rambus is obligated to license the Patents-in-Suit without charge or under reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of unfair discrimination, such that the defendants may make, use, sell, or offer to sell products which implement the JEDEC or other standards." theregister.co.uk That is exactly what Rambus want to do... they will all pay the same royalty The only thing is that the misconduct has to be attributed, will see who get the hot potato Hitachi seems ready to pay, thanks Hitachi ;-) Orion LRVLT

To: Dan3 who wrote (39037)	3/29/2000 1:44:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Yeah, sure they did! Every company at JEDEC knew what business RAMBUS was in .i.e., licensing but by showing up at the JEDEC meetings they implicitly granted everyone a license. So why did Hitachi sign a license with RAMBUS in the first place? It gets better all the time! Hitachi is treading on very thin ice with this type of argument. It looks like they are tacitly admitting that they used RAMBUS patents but simply do not want to pay. Instead, they are asking the court to put RAMBUS out of business. Interestingly, they are not claiming that RAMBUS did not disclose the relevant patent s to JEDEC they are saying that RAMBUS subsequently modified the patents using JEDEC material. This is a real stretch since the patent claims are usually moving targets during the course of the patent process. The claims language is refined to draw the property lines between the old technology and the new patent. This is done in concert with the patent office and there is a record of every change and the reason for it in the patent file wrapper available to anyone from the patent office. Sounds like Texas Instruments. <LOL> The more I hear the more encouraged I become. :)