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To: jim kelley who wrote (51748)	8/29/2000 3:05:16 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

All, does this part of Micron's complaint hold any water? dailynews.yahoo.com ``Rambus subverted the open standards process so that it could gain monopoly control over the Synchronous DRAM technology and the Synchronous DRAM markets,'' according to Micron's complaint. ``Rambus defrauded and misled Micron and other members of the association into believing that it did not have any patent rights relevant to the standards and/or which it would assert against manufacturers under the standards.'' So Micron is claiming that Rambus pulled a fast one on JEDEC by making the members believe that Rambus didn't have any patents against SDRAM. Sounds bogus to me. I thought the real story was that JEDEC wanted Rambus to release the patents in question, but Rambus refused and withdrew from the coalition. And even if Micron's story is true, would that be enough of a reason to make Rambus' patents invalid? I doubt it; how do we know that the JEDEC members didn't mislead themselves? Oh, and here's another part of the article: ``Rambus has made public comments about how aggressive they will be in regards to their patent portfolio,'' Bedard said. ``They contacted us last week to begin a process of scheduling some meetings. So we felt that, in view of their past performance and evaluating what's best for our shareholders and best for Micron, that we better file a suit.'' This seems to support the theory that Micron expected a lawsuit from Rambus, so Micron decided just to pre-emptively sue them first. Tenchusatsu