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To: charred water who wrote (67810)	3/15/2001 5:05:49 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi charred water; You're looking in the wrong patents. The correct patent application to look into is the original one filed in 1990, not the divisionals. The one with the 20 references where "bus" wasn't mentioned is a divisional from long after JEDEC SDRAM. For those who haven't been paying attention, what happened is this: (1) Rambus' original patent did not cover SDRAM. Instead they were for RDRAM. (2) JEDEC designed SDRAM, avoiding any RDRAM infringement by not multiplexing the data bus. (3) Rambus modified their patents to cover SDRAM by fooling the patent office. (4) Rambus sued for royalties. (5) Infineon asked that the terms (Markman) of the original 1990 patent be used, as that was the public disclosure required for patents, not the submarine versions. (6) Rambus asked that the terms (Markman) of the later divisional patents be used, as that was what covered SDRAM. (7) The judge verbally granted Infineon's Markman request. (yesterday) (8) The stock crashed. (today, sort of like the wily coyote when he suddenly realizes that he has no solid ground under himself) Got it? -- Carl