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

To: Scumbria who wrote (55238)	9/26/2000 10:33:50 AM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

<<Rambus behavior looks suspicious to me, because they came along after five years of SDRAM production and suddenly started asking for royalties. The patent they are using for this claim looks rather obvious to me.>> Come on Scumbria - You surely know better. You are not thinking to clearly this morning. Up too late as was I. That said Did you want RMBS to ask for royalties before they were awarded a patent? RMBS is very generous. They could be asking for back royalties.

To: Scumbria who wrote (55238)	9/26/2000 1:41:21 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Geeze scumbria, Now you are sounding desperate or you really have no clue about RMBS patents, the history of the patents & RMBS as an IPR house. If I didn't know better (that is your claims to have no position) I would have to conclude you have a short position that was giving you heartburn. Don't worry scumbria, I am sure you will either ignore this post or you will spin it into something totally different to avoid the obvious.... which is your agenda & your dishonesty. Ö¿Ö w2

To: Scumbria who wrote (55238)	9/26/2000 3:35:38 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, behavior looks suspicious to me So anything that looks suspicious to you, you pre-judge? Am I also to assume that you are an unbiased individual when you pre-judge? On the issue of SDRAM/DDR royalties. You first have to have the patents awarded before you can go asking for royalties. Once they got the patents awarded, they did what they had to do. Nothing suspicious there. Why did it take that long? Because the original patent filled in 1990 included many items that the patent office asked Rambus to split into separate patents, which they did. This may be of interest to you that summarizes what I said above. quoteserver.dogpile.com "When Hyundai and Micron launched preemptive suits against Rambus Inc. recently, I called a longtime source familiar with DRAM technology and patent law. Now retired, this gentleman is no friend of Rambus DRAM. "My opinion hasn't changed: Rambus is too complicated," he said. The Rambus patents, however, are another matter. He put me on hold, went to his basement office and resumed the conversation with a stack of Rambus patents at the ready. Mike Farmwald and Mark Horowitz, the founders of Rambus, filed comprehensive patent claims in the early 1990s related to memory bus architectures and synchronous DRAM technology. "These were very well-written claims, with a full page or two pages of references," my source said. "The Patent Office later came back and told them to split up the claims and refile them." In 1999, the Patent Office finally granted a long string of patents to Farmwald and Horowitz, with the patents assigned to Rambus. Based on what my source said, the Rambus patents are not something the DRAM industry will be able to easily avoid."