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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave B who wrote (45133)	6/19/2000 8:31:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave, The point I have been trying to make is that no significant design is possible these days without walking over dozens of patents. The longs over here are very proud of Rambus' patents, but the fact is that the main claim Rambus is making over SDRAM is just one of many patents being stepped on. This is normally handled between companies by cross-licensing, but Rambus has no product and thus has nothing to cross license. Rambus can't really be litigated against, because they have no product besides IP. The patent system will have to come up with a new way to deal with IP companies. As I've stated before, the normal system of patent checks and balances does not seem to work with Rambus. Scumbria