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ITC to probe Rambus' allegation of patent infringement by NVIDIA and others -
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| Rambus Inc. (RMBS: News ), which develops and licenses chip interface
| technologies and architectures used in digital electronics products, said
| Thursday that the U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to its
| request and instituted a probe regarding alleged infringement of nine of the
| company's patents by graphics chip maker NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) and others whose
| products incorporate the disputed NVIDIA products.
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http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx?Id=794056&SMap=1
How does an embargo improve innovation? How is a patent in a standard everyone
needs to implement actually rational?
Recent:
Rambus hopes for the go-ahead to collect on licensing fee claims
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| Judge Ronald M. Whyte of the US District Court, Northern District of
| California in San Jose, who has already presided over other cases involving
| Rambus and Hynix, has now reached a number of decisions, which were preceded
| by a legally and technically interesting 42-page set of findings. According
| to the court findings, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR2, and GDDR4 SDRAM chips made by
| Hynix, Micron, Nanya and Samsung infringe claim 16 of Rambus patent
| 6,266,285, granted on July 24, 2001; where GDDR3 memory is concerned, only
| Hynix, Micron and Samsung are affected. Rambus had also filed complaints over
| patent infringements related to nine further US patents, but Judge Whyte
| denied them for the most part.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/119623
Rambus wants to stop Nvidia products from being imported into the US
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| It seems that the negotiations between Rambus and Nvidia over the licence
| fees for Rambus patents haven't been going too well. Rambus has now filed a
| complaint against Nvidia at the US International Trade Commission (USITC),
| asking the USITC to order an import ban for products with Nvidia parts
| containing memory controllers for SDRAM memory components like DDR, DDR2,
| DDR3, LPDDR, GDDR, GDDR2 and GDDR3. This probably includes most of Nvidia's
| graphics chips, mainboard chipsets and notebook chipsets, including those
| incorporated in the latest Apple notebooks as well as products by Asus, BFG,
| Biostar, Diablotek, EVGA, Gigabyte, HP, MSI, Palit, Pine and Sparkle, who
| were all explicitly listed by Rambus.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/118645
Related:
EU accuses Rambus of 'patent ambush'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_hi_te/eu_rambus_patent_ambush
Rambus Sues Nvidia
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| Rambus on Thursday said it had filed a lawsuit against Nvidia, alleging the
| graphics chip vendor had infringed on memory architecture patents owned by
| Rambus.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148236/rambus_sues_nvidia.html
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