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To: Dave B who wrote (79666)	11/9/2001 1:45:46 PM
From: SBHX	Respond to of 93625

DaveB, You're right, the patent owner can choose to not license them, and in so far as that withholding of licensing does not violate anti-trust laws, they clearly have a legal right to do so. An example for anti-trust bait would be for intc to not license P4-host-bus IF to anyone at all (eg : no sis license) as that can be misconstrued as an attempt to gain 100% of the P4 chipset market. <g>. What is in contention is whether it can be sprung as a 'surprise' after the fact when the company has been engaged in the standards setting body without disclosure. I used to think it was a grey area, open to shrewd business manouevers, but this precedent seems to indicate otherwise. But of course, to think that the jedec participants didn't know that rambus probably was pursuing patents that might cause them problems is probably a stretch, nevertheless, you join the standards body with rules like this, that's what happens, and rambus management, by not following their own house legal advice to walk away from jedec when things looked in conflict was probably in hindsight, extremely foolish. SbH