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Rambus produces patents, patents for things that are trivial or obvious.
It managed to extort agreements to pay it about a hundred million dollars
before one of its victims decided to take the patents to court. After a
mere ten million dollars worth of litigation, the court ruled that all
Rambus patents were completely bogus. Needless to say, Rambus will appeal,
in the hopes that it will get a judge who is abysmally ignorant of
technology, and totally incapable of judging what is obvious. Naturally
they stand a fair chance of lucking out.
But the interesting thing about this case is that Rambus's business model
is based on patents, and it is the exact opposite of the business model
that patents were designed to support. Rambus does not produce ram chips,
it does not produce technology, it does not produce designs. Instead, it's
business is obstructing all of these things with lawsuits.
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James A. Donald
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