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

To: mishedlo who wrote (50088)	8/17/2000 9:01:20 AM
From: Pluvia	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

mishedlo... You sure looked hard didn't you? Here's my post and the issue concerning DELL's legal precedent Hitachi used in their countersuit vs RMBS.... *Nowhere in your link does it discuss the issue of RMBS abusing it's involvement in JEDEC.* Clearly I'm not as smart as you, so once again I ask you to show this dumb country boy by pasting a quote and a link showing how this argument and the DELL legal precedent is a ridiculous argument.... I figger a real smart city boy like yerself can handle that... Put up or shut up as they say out here in the weeds... ************************************************** Message 14226562 60. In the 1990s, JEDEC coordinated the development of technology standards for high-speed memory known as Synchronous DRAM or SDRAM, so that memory from different suppliers would be compatible with each other and with the modules and systems that use such memory. Rambus was a JEDEC member at that time and attended meetings called for that purpose. But instead of participating in the JEDEC standard-setting process in good faith, Rambus subverted the process, attempting to use it as a vehicle to control illegally the relevant markets. 61. JEDEC’s rules, designed to prohibit the kind of activity by Rambus at issue in this case, required Rambus to disclose to that organization and its members the existence and nature of certain of Rambus’ patent rights and pending patent applications. Instead of disclosing that information, as required, Rambus improperly revised its pending applications and subsequent applications that were based on the then-pending applications, to cover what it learned from its participation in JEDEC and the disclosures of other JEDEC members and participants. 62. Without knowledge of Rambus’ pending applications, which were maintained in secret, JEDEC determined an industry standard for synchronous DRAM interface technology. Rambus now asserts that certain of its patents, including patents arising from applications that were revised to reflect what Rambus learned from the other JEDEC members and participants, cover the JEDEC SDRAM interface technology standards. If Rambus’ assertions are correct, this would mean that products that follow the previously open JEDEC standard would infringe Rambus’ patents. ***************************************