Rambus Wins Brutal Patent Fight Against Nvidia

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]saigoncowboy[/nom]Wow! What am I missing?[/citation]
The point?
How about that the phrase patent troll was never more rightly used with this company.

If i had an idea and decided I wanted to create the product to sell to customers, I would have to either pay a fab company or build my own factory and churn out the products myself.

This company has no intention of bringing the patents they own to market, they sit on them and wait for other people who have spent billions on factories, staff, global distribution networks, sales force, agreements with resellers and advertising.
Billions and billions and billions.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

So they wait and sue everyone to make money.

If, eventually, people stop using Rambus held patents (difficult as they hoover up thousands of the goddam things) then the idea will never see the light of day as Rambus has no intention of making it and this does one thing and one thing only.

IT STIFLES INNOVATION

 

[kooltime]

Key point missing is Rambus did not hire the inventors whom they hold patents for, they bought the rights from those poeple, Rambus was not a tech invention company that had the engineers to make these 100+ patents Rambus now holds.

They only had engineered as a company a few of all those patents they actually hold, the rest were bought off other people and they claim they made them.

Big business now adays is patent / web site name buying rights, submitting patents for things already invented or buying popular names for hold. So someone wanting to make a new invention cant unless they pay the name holder for it, even though they only bought the name for that purpose to re-sell never actually invented anything.

Alot of patents are copies of older patents just slighty re-worked / re-named so they go un-noticed by the patent office as already being owned, as its impossible for the patent office to scan the millions of patents for duplication every time a new one is submitted. Many are just that, or copies of others work done before the patent office even kept track of them in this large a quantity as we have today.

 

[vaughn2k]

There are 2 types of companies which does patent; a> defensive patent - because they wanted to protect their IP, and b> offensive patent, they wanted to get money from others. Rambus and Tessera are 2 of which.