Rambus Is Back In Court, Sues Nvidia

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[citation][nom]ovaltineplease[/nom]http://www.crn.com/it-channel/175800680AMD already has been had by Rambus.Read the following Federal Trade Commission document for information about the case against Rambus for its illegitimately obtained monopoly.http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/08/rambus.shtm[/citation]
While you're at it, look for the overturn of the FTC decision by the appellate courts. Then re-assess what you think you know about Rambus please. You only know a part of the story, the one that has been propagated to make you believe one thing when the truth is really something else. Sound like something that could happen in the media...boy, if you only knew!!!

 

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[citation][nom]njalterio[/nom]I really hate companies like Rambus. This is probably the only case where I wish the U.S. government would just step in and dissolve Rambus. They don't do anything except sue people and get in the way.[/citation]
For a lawsuit to make it to court, it has to have some merit or it would be thrown out. Chew on that one.

 

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[citation][nom]ryaninomaha[/nom]Rambus is just another useless IP patent holding company now. Their only source of income is court awarded settlements and royalty payments (also the results of their lawsuits). They don't build or manufacture anything and are little more than a leach on the industry as a whole. I guarantee that they have 10X as many lawyers on staff as they have engineers. Sadly these type of companies will continue to exist until something is done w/ the broken patent laws in this country.[/citation]
You're right..they don't manufacture anything...they INVENT!!! Inventors, like the engineers at Rambus, don't come cheap. Who do you think is supposed to pay all those engineers? It happens with ROYALTIES! And what makes you think the patent laws are broken? Couldn't be the companies who want to use inventions without paying royalties now could it?

 

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You're right when you say "common sense suggests that suing your customers isn’t always a good idea." But suing becomes necessary when a company continues to use patented technologies without paying the inventors. Otherwise, what incentive would there be to invent if there were no reward, be it monetary or otherwise. You should have also added to your article that Rambus tried to get Nvidia to sign a license and pay for the Rambus inventions for 6 years. Long enough to try other measures, don't you think?