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To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (73629)	5/25/2001 10:31:21 AM
From: Johnny Canuck	Respond to of 93625

May 25, 2001 Italian court finds Micron did not infringe Rambus patents By Jack Robertson EBN (05/24/01, 02:01:11 PM EST) Rambus Inc.'s synchronous-interface patent infringement case against Micron Technology Inc. was dismissed Thursday by a judge in Monza, Italy, a Micron spokesman confirmed today. An expert technical panel set up by the Italian court last week had upheld the validity of the Rambus patents, which the Los Altos, Calif., company claimed Micron had infringed. However, the judge Thursday overruled that finding and determined that Micron had not violated the patents. Details of the decision were sketchy, but sources close to Micron said the judge determined that Rambus' synchronous patents use a multiplexed memory bus, something Micron's SDRAM do not use. The basis for the decision was similar to that used this month in a U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., where federal judge Robert Payne dismissed patent infringement charges brought by Rambus against Infineon Technologies AG. In that trial, the judge also found that because Infineon's SDRAM do not use the same multiplexed bus described in the Rambus patents that no violation had occurred. Rambus executives were not immediately available to comment on the Micron decision. Earlier this month a jury in the Richmond trial found that Rambus committed fraud by hiding its SDRAM patent applications while participating in an industry JEDEC panel drafting an open SDRAM standard. Based on the decision, Infineon has asked Judge Payne to declare the Rambus patents unenforceable. Payne is now expected to rule on the motion in July. In a separate action, Micron, Boise, Idaho, has filed suit against Rambus in a Wilmington, Del., federal court seeking to invalidate the synchronous patents. U.S. District Court Judge Roderick McKelvie has set the case aside until Judge Payne rules on the outstanding unenforceability question. The Wilmington trial is now set to open Oct. 29. In the meantime, a court in Mannheim, Germany, is due to rule in the next several weeks on Rambus' patent infringement suits against Infineon, and somewhat later on separate complaints filed by Rambus against Micron and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (formerly Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd.).

To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (73629)	5/25/2001 10:31:21 AM
From: Johnny Canuck	Respond to of 93625

May 25, 2001 Italian court finds Micron did not infringe Rambus patents By Jack Robertson EBN (05/24/01, 02:01:11 PM EST) Rambus Inc.'s synchronous-interface patent infringement case against Micron Technology Inc. was dismissed Thursday by a judge in Monza, Italy, a Micron spokesman confirmed today. An expert technical panel set up by the Italian court last week had upheld the validity of the Rambus patents, which the Los Altos, Calif., company claimed Micron had infringed. However, the judge Thursday overruled that finding and determined that Micron had not violated the patents. Details of the decision were sketchy, but sources close to Micron said the judge determined that Rambus' synchronous patents use a multiplexed memory bus, something Micron's SDRAM do not use. The basis for the decision was similar to that used this month in a U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., where federal judge Robert Payne dismissed patent infringement charges brought by Rambus against Infineon Technologies AG. In that trial, the judge also found that because Infineon's SDRAM do not use the same multiplexed bus described in the Rambus patents that no violation had occurred. Rambus executives were not immediately available to comment on the Micron decision. Earlier this month a jury in the Richmond trial found that Rambus committed fraud by hiding its SDRAM patent applications while participating in an industry JEDEC panel drafting an open SDRAM standard. Based on the decision, Infineon has asked Judge Payne to declare the Rambus patents unenforceable. Payne is now expected to rule on the motion in July. In a separate action, Micron, Boise, Idaho, has filed suit against Rambus in a Wilmington, Del., federal court seeking to invalidate the synchronous patents. U.S. District Court Judge Roderick McKelvie has set the case aside until Judge Payne rules on the outstanding unenforceability question. The Wilmington trial is now set to open Oct. 29. In the meantime, a court in Mannheim, Germany, is due to rule in the next several weeks on Rambus' patent infringement suits against Infineon, and somewhat later on separate complaints filed by Rambus against Micron and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (formerly Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd.).

To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (73629)	5/25/2001 10:57:54 AM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Harry Lew... From what I have been reading the briefing quote may be misinformation on which Jack wrote his article. Please provide a link for the briefing statement. Thanks! News from Italy (Update) by: radiant_citadel (22/M) 05/25/01 09:24 am EDT Msg: 288040 of 288166 I am not surprised the piece of news was removed from Yahoo News, and that Bloomberg posted an Update with no info on the reasons for dismissing the motion filed by Rambus. In particular, the wording about the multiplexed bus has been removed... Let's wait for a final official release of the judgement, and then we can decide. If the experts said infringement there was, and J. Robertson even mentioned it, then judge cannot overrule (if he does, exposure for a 100% chance of successful appeal)... Maybe Micron just misunderstood what was in fact rejected by the judge (motion to halt operations or infringement suit) RK ===================================================== INFRINGMENT HAS NOT BEEN DECIEDED by: gpcordaro (46/M) 05/25/01 09:17 am EDT Msg: 288031 of 288168 ilcentro.kataweb.it «sebbene la guerra tra Micron e Rambus in materia di brevetti non sia ancora finita né in Italia né all'estero. La vicenda», finita= not final ======================================================= My friend translated the article for me by: gpcordaro (46/M) 05/25/01 09:07 am EDT Msg: 288015 of 288169 It said that the jobs are safe, and the court will not shut down the plant, but the infringement part of the trail is not finished. They have yet to decide if MU infringed.More to come later.