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Rambus Defendant Of Patent Ambush Inwards Europe Too

came across this on ft.com, the electronic arm of the Financial Times.

The European Commission is investigating the acquit of the U.S. retentiveness bit designer Rambus, over allegations that the companionship is laying a so-called “patent ambush” a flat of contest abuse inwards which a companionship takes purpose inwards setting an manufacture touchstone without declaring that the novel touchstone infringes its patents. Once the touchstone is agreed, the companionship tin forcefulness out together with hence demand royalties from other groups which guide maintain no pick but to follow the manufacture standard.

The Federal Trade Commission has been pursuing like allegations inwards the US. In 2002 it defendant Rambus of deceiving an manufacture standards body, JEDEC, amongst the aim of getting a estimator bit technology scientific discipline covered past times i of its patents adopted every bit an manufacture standard. This reportedly allowed Rambus to claim subsequent royalties from chipmakers such every bit Hitachi, Samsung together with Toshiba. However, inwards a surprise ruling concluding year, the FTC's representative against Rambus was dismissed (though that determination is nether appeal).

is a petty puzzled past times all this. It seems that (i) Rambus' patents were unpublished at the fourth dimension the standards were agreed, or (ii) they were published but no-one idea of doing a patent search to meet if the manufacture touchstone infringed anyone's rights, or (iii) a patent search was done but no-one flora Rambus' patents. Merpel says, never demand heed almost this: I'm merely looking frontwards to "Return of the JEDEC" ...

More on ambushes hither (for readers amongst rigid nerves), here and here

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