To: Barry Grossman who wrote (67917 ) 3/16/2001 3:46:03 AM From: Barry Grossman Read Replies (1) | Respond to And the latest revised version of the original story is, as of 12:40 am pst, on the now once again working website:electronicnews.com A judge is expected to issue an official pre-trial ruling limiting the scope of Rambus Inc.’s patents in the U.S. court case against Infineon Technologies AG, according to industry sources close to the case. Yesterday, sources told Electronic News a ruling had been made. However, no written ruling has yet been issued, but “an order is in the making,” a court clerk said today. [of course it is since the Markman hearing was on 2/26 and today is 3/16! Duh!] Judge Robert E Payne, who is hearing the case in the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., would kill Rambus’ (nasdaq: RMBS) royalty claims on SDRAM and double data rate (DDR) memory if he accepts testimony from Infineon’s expert witness , sources said. [Gee, I wonder who these sources could be. Could it be.... SATAN! Or... is the we in the next sentence the givaway? I mean after all, what would one expect the defendant in the case to say here?] “(The Markman) testimony was that the Rambus patent is a multiplex bus, and that we don’t use the multiplex bus in our SDRAM or DDR products,” the source said. “It means that because we don’t use the multiplex bus they use in their patents…we are not in violation of their patents.”
