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Rambus Slammed For 'Judge Shopping'
Lawrence Person writes: "Acoording to this story on Semiconductor Business News, International Trade Comission Judge Administrative Law Judge Sidney Harris reprimanded Rambus for "blatant judge shopping" in response to Rambus withdrawing its suit against Hyundai after Harris, known as a tough judge, was assigned to the case. Harris also ruled "that if Rambus in the future ever filed a new synchronous patent infringement case against Hyundai, or even any other firm, such a petition must be assigned to his court if he is able to hear it.""
RAMBUS would be better off doing some engineer-shopping to develop a truely competetive product to DDR-SDRAM.
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
Rambus claims to hold a patent over all SDRAM and DDR SDRAM chips produced. Anywhere. Rambus's goal is to force companies to pay fees to Rambus in order raise the cost of all non-Rambus memory. Rambus is just too weak to compete on the open market. Hyundai is one of the SDRAM producers that haven't caved in. Micron is another. Some others have caved though.
But it is clearly the "will of the people" that Rambus suceed, for it has been decided that Rambus is better and faster, so no doubt it would win the "popular vote", so I don't understand why this judge wouldn't allow Rambus to trample any opposition. I mean, come on, the people want Rambus, don't they?
Information is the catalyst for revolution
Really now... would you buy the first judge you looked at? Clearly, it's wise to shop around a little bit first. Compare prices. Contrast features. Make sure the judge you buy is a value.