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Rambus Destroyed Evidence In Anti-trust Trial

Posted by timothy on from the oh-no-it-was-an-accident dept.

Marasmus writes "CNN is reporting that memory-chip maker Rambus has been found guilty of destroying evidence which was 'critical' to the anti-trust case brought by the U.S. government. Interestingly, the Judge has denied the FTC's request to move on to the penalty phase of the trial. Destruction of evidence in an anti-trust case normally yields a forfeiture of trial, but Rambus 'will have the burden of proving its innocence" instead.'

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  1. Re:What's The Big Deal by gr8_phk · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The only connection it has with "News For Nerds" is the fact that it is a Chip-Making company....

    And the fact that they went into JEDEC meetings to help define an open standard and then patented things being developed there. The RAMBUS saga is about abuse of the processes used to develop new standards. Rambus has yet to be properly dealt with for that, and that make an update on their case "News for Nerds" as much as anything.

  2. Re:Not much to the article... by gregbaker · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Not quite...

    Rambus says they legally destroyed the documents, a Judge says they illegally destroyed the documents. Rambus is useless.

    :-)