European Comission Accuses Rambus of &#39;Patent Ambush&#39;
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Six months after U.S. regulators capped royalties that vendors must pay to Rambus Inc., the European Union (EU) is taking a close look at the company&#39;s monopoly on the DRAM (dynamic RAM) chip market.
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In Europe, industry leaders, government officials and others debate whether patents would hinder or cultivate innovation.
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Antitrust officials are looking for evidence that the chipmaker broke the rules to guarantee its chips would be competitive on the European market. Intel says it is cooperating with the investigation.
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Kodak&#39;s claim that Sun&#39;s use of Java violates three patents it holds could cast a cloud over Java&#39;s future direction. By Charles Babcock.
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BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion  and rival Motorola  have sued each other over what they say are patent infringements for technology used in their mobile phones.
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The flash memory maker filed three patent infringement suits against companies that make, sell and import flash storage products.
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Arguments were heard today in a case whose outcome could require software companies to pay fines for patent-infringing software assembled in other countries.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched four investigations involving the import of computers or electronic device components, including one based on a complaint that several companies are violating patents on DRAM chips.
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In the statement, issued Tuesday, the three developers argued that the legislation, called the software patent directive, would be harmful to the European economy.
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An international media rights group has accused a French company of selling equipment to China used by the government to jam foreign radio broadcasts.
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The European commission yesterday lambasted European carmakers for an unprecedented campaign to overturn its plans to throw open the â¬10bn (Â£6.
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European regulators raided some of the continentâs biggest drug makers in an inquiry over whether patent disputes and lawsuits are keeping generic products off the market.
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Patent infringement decision leads to one of the largest patent decisions in history.
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After three years, fee falls to zero The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has told Rambus how much the memory technology developer may levy in royalties on SDRAM and DDR SDRAM devices for the next three years, after which the company may not charge any royalties at all. Rambus said it was "disappointed" with the ruling and stated its plan to appeal against the ruling.â¦
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The Federal Trade Commission has imposed caps on royalty rates Rambus can charge for its patented technologies, following an August decision that the company monopolized the market. The company vows to appeal.
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I2 Technologies accused SAP of patent infringement in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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McCreevy calls for consensus European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has acknowledged that there are "legitimate concerns" about proposals to create a pan-European patent litigation system.â¦