Rambus did not seed any JEDEC process with their technology...where do you people get your facts from ???
Rambus shared their technology (and in some cases their entire patent application) with the industry before joining JEDEC...
Once in JEDEC they saw their technology and their patents being openly discussed, and dismissed as a collection of prior art on which patents would never be issued...
Rambus never voted to adopt any technology while a member of JEDEC...
Rambus was the only member of JEDEC in the history of the organization to ever be denied the right to present their technology for standardization...this happened twice...
The point you seem to be missing is that the management of JEDEC was openly trying to subvert Rambus within the organization...
The person who denied Rambus request to present RDRAM for standardization had only two weeks prior written in an IBM internal memo that if Rambus isn't standardized, it's business as usual for IBM...
This person supposedly denied Rambus request because there was a rule change at the very meeting, and just before, Rambus made the request...but there is no record of any rule change in the meeting minutes and this person had previously given sworn testimony that no rules ever changed...
How about the JEDEC counsel testifying that when he said or wrote the word Patents, he really meant Patents, Patent Applications and Intentions to file patents...BTW, did you know that while Rambus was a member only 5 patent applications were ever disclosed within jedec, and this being done only by either presenters of technolgoy for standardization or by other than the inventor and JEDEC included companies such as IBM and HP and Micron and Siemens...wonder how many patents they applied for during that time period that were not disclosed ???
How about another JEDEC manager who was listed as an inventor on a patent, that he never disclosed to the membership until it was adopted as a standard, and then after it was adopted assurred the membership that it would be "Royalty Free"...and later testified that "Royalty Free" did not mean Free ???
How about the Micron engineer who admitted at the FTC trial that he head technology discussions at JEDEC, went back to work and patented the technology without disclosing this to JEDEC and a year after the patent issued, finally told the membership that anyone could use the technolgy, but Micron later sued another member over the tech ???
This could go on and on...but trust me...it's not like you thought !!!
Read the FTC document and learn...
http://www.ftc.gov/os/adjpro/d9302/040223initialde cision.pdf
Rambus never voted to adopt any standard...they never inserted anything...
Rambus did ask to present RDRAM for Standarization, but they were the only company in the entire history of JEDEC to ever be denied the ability to present their own technology for standardization...this denial occurred twice...
You should really check your facts before posting lies...
The fact is that Rambus not only applied for the patent (that the uspto required be broken into individual patents), but Rambus also shared their technology via NDA with the industry before ever joining JEDEC...
How you can come on a public message board and defame someone while posting a lie is unbelievable...
Once in JEDEC Rambus saw their inventions being cherrypicked...
They heard others openly discussing their technology and their patents as being unpatentable because it was "just a collection of prior art".
That's why Rambus tech was included in the standards...
Rambus never voted to approve any standard, much less their own.
In fact they were the only company in the ENTIRE HISTORY of JEDEC (note this point because it's important)...THE ONLY COMPANY IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF JEDEC to be denied the ability to present their own technology for possible standardization !!!
Rambus was a revolutionary idea, if it was not for Rambus you might still be using EDO...What did Infineon say in 1992 ? "Someday all computers will have to be built this way, hopefully without the royalties going to Rambus"...
Yes, a Judge who was completely reversed in all of his decisions on appeal...
This was confirmed by the CAFC and the US Supreme Court...
BTW, did you know that the good judge was a professor at the same school as the FTC Complaint Counsel (who worked previously for a firm hired by micron)...who, after the FTC Trial went back to work for that same firm ??? Did you know that Just before that trial in Va, that the State of Va had agreed to give Infineon up to 60 million dollars in return for expanding their operations in VA...
As far as the FUD you posted...Stay tuned...the information that you posted above came from paid news sources, that much will be proven in the AntiTrust Trial...the fact is that RDRAM was only recently surpassed by DDR...Amazing isn't it that a memory designed in the late 1980s was only just beaten out ??? (of course the memory that beat it contained many of the same inventions that went into RDRAM...Maybe that's the reason ???
If you really want to get a clue as to what went on read this document produced by the FTC... http://www.ftc.gov/os/adjpro/d9302/040223i nitialde cision.pdf
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Rambus did not seed any JEDEC process with their technology...where do you people get your facts from ??? Rambus shared their technology (and in some cases their entire patent application) with the industry before joining JEDEC... Once in JEDEC they saw their technology and their patents being openly discussed, and dismissed as a collection of prior art on which patents would never be issued... Rambus never voted to adopt any technology while a member of JEDEC... Rambus was the only member of JEDEC in the history of the organization to ever be denied the right to present their technology for standardization...this happened twice... The point you seem to be missing is that the management of JEDEC was openly trying to subvert Rambus within the organization... The person who denied Rambus request to present RDRAM for standardization had only two weeks prior written in an IBM internal memo that if Rambus isn't standardized, it's business as usual for IBM... This person supposedly denied Rambus request because there was a rule change at the very meeting, and just before, Rambus made the request...but there is no record of any rule change in the meeting minutes and this person had previously given sworn testimony that no rules ever changed... How about the JEDEC counsel testifying that when he said or wrote the word Patents, he really meant Patents, Patent Applications and Intentions to file patents...BTW, did you know that while Rambus was a member only 5 patent applications were ever disclosed within jedec, and this being done only by either presenters of technolgoy for standardization or by other than the inventor and JEDEC included companies such as IBM and HP and Micron and Siemens...wonder how many patents they applied for during that time period that were not disclosed ??? How about another JEDEC manager who was listed as an inventor on a patent, that he never disclosed to the membership until it was adopted as a standard, and then after it was adopted assurred the membership that it would be "Royalty Free"...and later testified that "Royalty Free" did not mean Free ??? How about the Micron engineer who admitted at the FTC trial that he head technology discussions at JEDEC, went back to work and patented the technology without disclosing this to JEDEC and a year after the patent issued, finally told the membership that anyone could use the technolgy, but Micron later sued another member over the tech ??? This could go on and on...but trust me...it's not like you thought !!! Read the FTC document and learn... http://www.ftc.gov/os/adjpro/d9302/040223initialde cision.pdf
Rambus never voted to adopt any standard...they never inserted anything... Rambus did ask to present RDRAM for Standarization, but they were the only company in the entire history of JEDEC to ever be denied the ability to present their own technology for standardization...this denial occurred twice... You should really check your facts before posting lies...
False Troll...Can anyone be more clueless...
i nitialde cision.pdf
The fact is that Rambus not only applied for the patent (that the uspto required be broken into individual patents), but Rambus also shared their technology via NDA with the industry before ever joining JEDEC...
How you can come on a public message board and defame someone while posting a lie is unbelievable...
Once in JEDEC Rambus saw their inventions being cherrypicked...
They heard others openly discussing their technology and their patents as being unpatentable because it was "just a collection of prior art".
That's why Rambus tech was included in the standards...
Rambus never voted to approve any standard, much less their own.
In fact they were the only company in the ENTIRE HISTORY of JEDEC (note this point because it's important)...THE ONLY COMPANY IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF JEDEC to be denied the ability to present their own technology for possible standardization !!!
Rambus was a revolutionary idea, if it was not for Rambus you might still be using EDO...What did Infineon say in 1992 ? "Someday all computers will have to be built this way, hopefully without the royalties going to Rambus"...
Yes, a Judge who was completely reversed in all of his decisions on appeal...
This was confirmed by the CAFC and the US Supreme Court...
BTW, did you know that the good judge was a professor at the same school as the FTC Complaint Counsel (who worked previously for a firm hired by micron)...who, after the FTC Trial went back to work for that same firm ??? Did you know that Just before that trial in Va, that the State of Va had agreed to give Infineon up to 60 million dollars in return for expanding their operations in VA...
As far as the FUD you posted...Stay tuned...the information that you posted above came from paid news sources, that much will be proven in the AntiTrust Trial...the fact is that RDRAM was only recently surpassed by DDR...Amazing isn't it that a memory designed in the late 1980s was only just beaten out ??? (of course the memory that beat it contained many of the same inventions that went into RDRAM...Maybe that's the reason ???
If you really want to get a clue as to what went on read this document produced by the FTC...
http://www.ftc.gov/os/adjpro/d9302/040223