ABSTRACT: RAMBUS – HARD CASES MAKE BAD LAW

Andrew Updegrove

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2003)

Last year, the standard setting world took comfort when the FTC opened an investigation against Rambus relating to its conduct in the JEDEC standard setting process. The government also issued a warning to all not to game the standard setting process. Now, the court that handles all patent case appeals has overturned a lower court's finding of fraud on the part of Rambus - because it found the JEDEC policy to be too vague. Now what happens?