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To: blake_paterson who wrote (46169)	6/27/2000 11:57:00 AM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Blake, The revision & clarification of the JEDEC rules in late 1993 coincides with the disclosure of the first RAMBUS' patent pending. If their policy was well known why did they have to publish a clarification of their own policies. In fact, it appears that some of the members were charging fees on their patent portfolios. For example, Texas Instruments. I wonder how many of the other companies were disclosing their own patents pending? I bet next to none! Since, the RAMBUS has to rely on the semiconductor companies to fabricate its designs in IC's. RAMBUS must have been in close communication with many these companies outside of the JEDEC meetings. These are the same companies that participate in the JEDEC meetings. It is a real leap of logic to portray Hitachi as the victim in this whole affair when in fact they were a RAMBUS licensee from early on. Hitachi took the licensed material and used it for non licensed products and then refused to pay RAMBUS despite the patents that issued last year. In fact, RAMBUS was the victim. Hitachi would have lost this part of their defense, IMO. JK