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AP Rambus Says Court Stays Hynix Trial Wednesday August 23, 8:23 am ET Rambus Says Court Stays Hearing in Hynix Lawsuit Pending a Federal Trade Commission Ruling LOS ALTOS, Calif. (AP) -- Rambus Inc., which licenses computer memory chip technology, said late Tuesday a court has conditionally stayed the final stage of its patent-infringement battle with Hynix, a maker of memory chips. The case was originally filed by Hynix against Rambus in 2000, seeking declaratory judgments that Rambus patents are invalid and not infringed. All 10 patents in question, however, were found to be valid and infringed. In late July, Rambus said it would accept $133.6 million in damages from Hynix Semiconductor Inc., less than half of the $306.9 million a jury had ordered Hynix to pay for the 10 patent infringements, after a judge in the U.S. District Court determined the lower amount due to the number of Hynix products in the U.S. between 2000 and 2005. Rambus is also suing Hynix for alleged patent infringements on products shipped this year. The next hearing was scheduled for Aug. 21, but, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California conditionally stayed the final stage of the trial until Feb., 2 or the issuance of a final order from the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC ruled earlier in August that Rambus deceived a standards-setting committee. Rambus has said it plans to appeal. The FTC case was centered on weather Rambus illegally obtained a monopoly in the 1990s when it secured patents for two types of memory used in personal computers. Rambus was accused of failing to disclose to an engineering council that its patents had been incorporated into an industry standard regarding memory technology. Rambus has argued it did disclose the patents. The company and the FTC, the federal agency that investigates allegations of unfair competition or business practices, must file briefs on the newest ruling by Sept. 15. Replies are due Sept. 29. The Court said one reason for the stay was the potential for a resolution of the case once the FTC sets royalty rates on memory technology used by Rambus. "The Court has expressed its view that the Commission's decision has increased the potential for a resolution of this case and the several other litigation between Rambus and various DRAM manufacturers," said Robert Kramer, acting general counsel at Rambus, in a statement. The stay also gives Hynix ninety days to try to establish the applicability of any findings of the FTC to this phase of the Hynix case. Quelle : http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060823/rambus_lawsuit.html |
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