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  • Rambus appeals court verdict is out!

    The CAFC (Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- the appeals court
    immediately below the US Supreme Court) has released it's decision in
    the appeal of the Rambus vs. Infineon case.

    The decision is a total victory for Rambus, the Appeals Court reversed
    the lower court on almost every aspect of the case.

    Rambus did not commit fraud, all four jury fraud counts against Rambus have been thrown out -- not remanded for a retrial, but totally thrown out as completely without any justification.

    Rambus did NOT violate Jedec rules or breach it's obligation of
    disclosure to Jedec.

    All fines and penalties against Rambus were thrown out.

    All injunctions against Rambus preventing them from bringing additional patent infringement cases were thrown out.

    All EIGHT claims construction rulings, every one of which was originally
    decided by the trial judge in Infineon's favor, were REVERSED and are
    now ruled in Rambus' favor.

    Because the original judge threw out Rambus' charge of patent
    infringement against Infineon (after making all of the erroneous rulings
    cited above), there never was an actual trial of Rambus' infringement
    case in the original trial, therefore a new trial has been ordered on
    that aspect of the case. However this new trial will be conducted under
    the eight new "claims construction" rulings issued by the appeals court.
    This makes it highly likely that Rambus will prevail (the term "slam
    dunk" comes to mind).

    Although this case could drag on for years yet, between the new trial
    for infringement and a likely appeal of every step by the losing side,
    the most likely outcome of today's decision is that Rambus' claim to
    have invented and validly patented intellectual property (inventions)
    that are part of every SDRAM and DDR memory module will probably prevail and be recognized by the courts.

  • #2
    SHIT!!!
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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    • #3
      VERY Interesting!

      Do you have a link?
      Titanium is the new bling!
      (you heard from me first!)

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      • #4
        Yes, let's see a link. Throwing out the entire case would be highly unusual.
        Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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        • #5
          Google news says http://australianit.news.com.au/arti...-15321,00.html
          Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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          • #6
            It's an AP piece, could be true... if it is you probably better go by any RAM you think you might need right now before the price goes up.

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            • #7
              Does that verdict hold any international value ?
              I mean, all the memory makers (non US) could just pull out of the US market and wait for Rambus to sue them in other countries where they would get a more favorable rulling.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Admiral
                Does that verdict hold any international value ?
                I mean, all the memory makers (non US) could just pull out of the US market and wait for Rambus to sue them in other countries where they would get a more favorable rulling.
                Yeah, sure, because companies don't need their American sales....
                Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Jon P. Inghram
                  It's an AP piece, could be true... if it is you probably better go by any RAM you think you might need right now before the price goes up.
                  Well, somebody thinks it's true..

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Wombat
                    Yes, let's see a link. Throwing out the entire case would be highly unusual.
                    Yes, it would. Rambus must have put all those judge's kids and grandkids though college for this sort of reversal...

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                    • #11
                      Usually if something like this happens there is a bit of publicty during the case, the fact it just popped up out of the blue suggest some very shifty dealing have been going on.

                      Me thinks grey market ram is going to be a flourishing business.

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                      • #12
                        wasn't jedec formed to make sure that a A-HOLE company like rambus did things like this?
                        If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                        Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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                        • #13
                          By the time the RAMBUS lawsuit finally comes to a close, MRAM (aka MAGRAM) will be out, which RAMBUS has nothing to do with

                          Jammrock
                          “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
                          –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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                          • #14
                            Another there is...

                            chuck
                            Chuck
                            秋音的爸爸

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                            • #15
                              The CAFC (Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- the appeals court
                              immediately below the US Supreme Court) has released it's decision in
                              the appeal of the Rambus vs. Infineon case.
                              Must've been too sleepy last night, somehow I thought it was a US Supreme Court decision.
                              I trust the Supreme Court will have more common sense.

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