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Rambus Patent Claims Dismissed
Gogo Dodo writes "The patent infringement claim by Rambus, the SCO of the chip world, against Infineon have been dismissed by a judge in Virginia due to Rambus destroying documents relating to the lawsuit." Of course, Rambus is already planning an appeal, so this may not be over just yet.
I think after Enron and Arthur Andersen, if you touched the documents you're gone.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
And rename YRO into just YR, because it's clear that general rights issues do have a place here.
To be fair, it's really an unfair comparison.
SCO is a IP litigation company which purchased a company with many valuable copyrights (IE: Code) to sue others into oblivion.
Rambus is a technically adept company with many valuable patented technologies, which squandered what advantages they had by trying to lock everybody into their tech and sueing anybody who competed...
I think that consumers who own systems with rambus rimms should file a class action suit for damages incurred due to non-upgradability.. I have a buddy with Dell Systems stuck with 128 mb of ram 'cuz local vendors (dell included) no longer ship rimms...
Sue the Fockers...
-if at first you don't succeed, stay the heck away from paragliding.
Actually I doubt that's on the list at all. Taco has said that he doesn't really care that much about the dupe thing and he thinks people who constantly complain about dupes are dumb.
You are assuming that they did destroy evidence. If you lost the right to appeal a decision based on findings in that decision, you'd end up with a catch-22 type situation that could be abused.
They'll get their appeal. If the appelete court finds nothing wrong with the lower courts decision, they'll lose. If the lower court erred, they'll get a do-over, and they'll win or lose on the merits.
It's about time. The courts need to begin to seriously sanction deceiptful and fraudulent behavior, otherwise, Chaos. This is a minimal sanction. Surely the judge recognized the previous fraud conviction, tossed but..., as well as clear document destruction makes this a no brainer. At all levels - Court of Appeals, Supremes, GWB, Congress - I think Rambus' credibility is SCO'd. Busted Rambus! Stick to your own inventions next time please.
he thinks people who constantly complain about dupes are dumb.
Oh really?
I think dupes, especially ones posted within the space of a day, are an indication that the editors are not even reading their own site. There have been numerous recent examples of editors failing to check for working links and at least ensuring a hint of accuracy in submission text, along with proper attribution, before posting. If they're going to take the time to post something on a page viewed by millions, they can take a few extra minutes to make sure it isn't crap, or posted two hours earlier and three items down the page. Otherwise, wtf are they doing all day?
Really, if the editors/authors can't live up to their self-granted titles, and can't give the viewing community--which is helping pay for the site either through ad views or subscriptions--a greater degree of oversight that they won't do themselves, I see no reason to ever subscribe. As it is, I'm pretty close to mapping slashdot.org to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file and staying away for a while.
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
Rambus basically sat in on industry meetings, then pre-emptively patented the technologies which were under proposal. Their methods were no more than extortion toward companies which implemented the (supposedly open) standards the industry had agreed upon. As far as I know Rambus doesn't actually employ many (any?) engineers, they are primarily in business to make money from "intellectual property."
As much as I dislike Rambus, they really don't deserve to be in the same category as SCO. Rambus at least creates something themselves, even if they don't produce what they create.
Rambus tricked a standards organization into accepting its patent-pending technology. While that is a dirty trick, Rambus did put in a lot of the work in creating the technology.
OTOH, SCO is attempting to claim the work of thousands of others as its own by deliberately misreading a few ancient contracts. Neither they nor any of their supposed predecessors in interest had anything to do with the enhancements to Linux and AIX that IBM created that SCO now purports to control.
Both companies are trying to use their "IP" to wring money out of other companies, but really SCO is so much worse.