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Judge Scraps Rambus Suit
by Maarten Goldstein, May 04, 2001 1:21pm PDTAccording to CNet, the judge in the Rambus - Inifineon case has thrown out the remaining three patent infringement claims leaving Rambus with empty hands. The judge had earlier already thrown out most of the important infringement claims. Patents are important for Rambus since a big part of their income is based on collecting royalties from DDR DRAM and SDRAM chipmakers. Several chipmakers say Rambus illegally patented the memory interface.
Until last year, Rambus' primary business strategy was licensing its own next-generation PC memory standard, known as RDRAM. However, Rambus sued Hitachi in January, claiming its patents also entitle Rambus to royalties on memory using the rival DDR (double-data rate) standard as well as SDRAM, today's standard memory.
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LONG LIVE DDR!!
Got caught in the mood :-)
MOTHAFUCKIN RAMBUS DESERVES TO DIE!
DIE RAMBUS, DIE!
DIE DIE! DIE!!! RAMBUS DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants".
One of the greatest scientists of our time, having done more for modern technology (and thus, btw, for the modern economy) that Microsoft will ever do, acknowledged the fact that he did so by being able to use the knowledge (what we now call "intellectual property") gathered by others.
http://web.siliconvalley.com/content/sv/2001/05/03/opinion/dgillmor/weblog/torvalds.htm
Rambus deserves to die.
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Ding Dong, the witch is dead! The witch is dead! The witch is dead! Ding Dong the witch is deeeeeeaaaad!
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LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LALA
THE EVIL WITCH IS DEAD
*laff*
The market just closed, and RMBS closed at $14.60. That's down $3.55 from yesterday's close of 18.15 (a 19.5% drop!).
We know it, NASDAQ knows it, and pretty soon, they'll know it: Rambus is goin' down.
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Then, after Rambus didn't fare so well, Rambus changed their business strategy: sue the licensees for patent infringement.
Well, both strategies have failed miserably. The big "get rich quick on memory standards litigation" scheme has failed. What's left for Rambus? Only time will tell.
i think it is safe to say:
* O W N E D *
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