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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (53763)	9/18/2000 12:47:48 PM
From: Estephen	Respond to of 93625

Incredible low volume on rambus today. Good time for the MM's to shake the tree. <G> get ready!!

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (53763)	9/18/2000 10:26:35 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 93625

Re:Steinberg said Rambus filed its SDRAM and logic-interface patent claims two years after leaving JEDEC in 1996. That would be 1998, by conventional arithmetic. At which point, SDRAM had been on the market for, uh, a while. I will leave it to the legal authorities on Yahoo to explain how that works. LOL! Regards, Dan

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (53763)	9/19/2000 1:16:30 PM
From: Marcel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

That would be 1998, by conventional arithmetic. At which point, SDRAM had been on the market for, uh, a while. I will leave it to the legal authorities on Yahoo to explain how that works it works because the claims originate from the 1990 patent application. and as long as were talkin' Yahoo authoritative posts...may I point you to: Re: Thoughts on Patents please........ by: ptnewell 9/19/00 11:28 am Msg: 161905 of 161954 See message 161700. But short and simple: Patents contain "claims" and "inventions". The inventions are schematics, technology, etc. The "claims" tell us what the invention applies to. Chronology: 1990 Rambus files patents containing technology currently used in SDRAM, DDR, etc. 1992-1996 Rambus in JEDEC 1998 Rambus go back to the patent office to claim that the 1990 technology applies to SDRAM. 1999 U.S. Patent Office agrees that the 1990 technology applies to SDRAM. Rambus now has a patent on SDRAM. The 1999 patent has a 1990 date, because that is when Rambus filed the original patent appplication with all the technology. The reason Rambus is emphasizing the 1998 date is that they were free to go back to the patent office to extend their claims to SDRAM (as long as the technology really was the same, and the Patent Office agreed it was). JEDEC has nothing to do with it. Rambus didn't need to know anything private about JEDEC's plans to go to the Patent Office in 1998 and say, "Our 1990 patent technology also covers SDRAM." That is a new "claim" which the Patent Office accepted.