"Phil Weldon" wrote in message
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'Eloi Chiasson' wrote:
Serious threat to nVidia products sold in US . Rambus filed a patent
infringement suit against NVIDIA in July 2008 on products that
incorporate
DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR, GDDR, GDDR2, and GDDR3 memory controllers,
including
graphics processors, and media and communications processors. This thing
is
huge and nVidia is better to win this battle !

http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/ramb...oducts-from-se
lling-in-us/6184.html
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RamBUS seems to be moving to a 'toll booth' business model. In other
words, they just collect patents and manufacture no products; making their
money by charging a fee to companies who DO produce. This kind of
behavior, along with 'one click' type patents will shortly lead to much
needed patent reform.

Phil Weldon


Yep. Patent reform has been needed for a very long time. I remember about 30
or so yrs ago when IBM hired this little known guy to do an OS that would
interact with and control several different storage devices. Not many gave
the "little" guy much of a chance against the behemoth but he had smartly
given himself the rights to the OS in the original contract.........:-). I
promised myself to buy some stock in that guys company if he won that
lawsuit......I never did...:-(. I thought there should be more protection
for the people that actually produce something back then.



Ed