EU Tests Out Its New 'Patent Ambush' Antitrust Law On Rambus
from the patent-ambush-indeed dept
Rambus has been involved in a whole series of lawsuits concerning its patents. If you don't recall, the company has been accused of sitting in on meetings for a standards body and then modifying its patent applications to cover technology included in the standard. Of course, once the patents were granted and the standards were set, Rambus basically went after everyone demanding licensing fees. The case has gone back and forth over the years in courts and in the US Federal Trade Commission -- who ruled that these actions were a violation of antitrust law. Over in Europe, it seems that officials feel that this is the perfect test case for a new kind of antitrust violation: "patent ambush." It's nice to see regulators realizing that abuse of patents should be considered an antitrust violation. Hopefully we'll see more of that going forward. Rambus, of course, claims this is nothing new, but it can't be good for them. In the meantime, as always when we post about Rambus, we wonder how long it will take for the company's stock holders to trash us for daring to question the company. Last time we wrote something negative about the company we got an email saying that "the authorities" had been alerted to our post. We wonder if "the authorities" have been alerted about the awful things European Union regulators are saying about Rambus as well.
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If you had to characterize our government which phrase is more accurate?
a - We the people
b - Follow the money
Not what our founding fathers had in mind is it?
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USA is a tad over 200...
If we compare the ages of countries to the ages of people; England is an adult in its prime, and USA is hitting its terrible teens.
Just a thought.
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Re: compare the ages of countries
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RFC
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THE EU & UN OUT OF AMERICA
CONSTITUTION OUR FOREFATHERS WROTE.
THE LEADERS WEVE ELECTED TO RUN OUR COUNTRY BUDDIED UP WITH SUCH ORGANIZATIONS AS THE EU AND THE UN WHICH IS MONEY
AND CONTROL FREEKS.
WE NEED TO GET RID OF THEM OUT OF OUR GOV.
THESE PEOPLE HAVE JUST ABOUT DESTROYED AMERICA. IT IS
JUST WHAT THEY WANTED. CONTROL CONTROL
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