Tag archive: Tom Lavelle

Anyone following the technology industry doesn't need to be told that patent litigation is often a long-running, byzantine affair that only gets more confusing the more it's examined. Case in point: memory developer Rambus has just been awarded supplemental damages in its patent infringement case against Hynix. Although Rambus's request for injunctive relief was denied by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District… Read More

In a closely watched intellectual property case, U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson has ruled that Rambus employees had destroyed email and other documents related to the company's patents, litigation, and marketing strategies between 1998 and 1999, and, as such, a dozen DRAM-related patents held by Rambus cannot be enforced against memory maker Micron. The two companies have patent-infringement lawsuits filed against each other in… Read More

Memory technology developer Rambus has been a source of controversy in the computing industry for several years. The company filed for a patent on high-speed memory technology way back in 1990, and then worked to have that technology widely adopted by the industry—and it was. But along the way came accusations that the company was using its membership in the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council to effectively establish a monopoly… Read More

A U.S. court of appeas has overturned a 2006 decision by the Federal Trade Commission that memory and interconnect developer Rambus had violated antitrust regulations by failing to tell a the JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Committee) standards organizations that it had patented technologies it would advocating for inclusion in new chips designs. According to the appeals court, Rambus would not have engaged in monopolistic practices… Read More