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20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/12/0119227
Microsoft, Symantec, more sued over OS permissions patent
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| Microsoft, Symantec, and 20 other companies have been sued by a small Texas
| firm for patent infringement. The firm was granted patents in the mid-'90s
| over systems for governing application and data permissions, as well as
| ensuring application integrity, and is now seeking to bar the companies from
| making use of the patents. And some monetary damages would be nice, too.
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| The firm, Information Protection and Authentication of Texas (IPAT), owns two
| patents cited in its complaint, the latest of which is US patent 5,412,717,
| which was filed in May 1992 and granted on May 2, 1995. This is a
| continuation of a previous patent, US number 5,311,591, granted in May, 1994.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090109-microsoft-symantec-more-sued-over-os-permissions-system.html
Chip Maker Rambus Loses Patent Case to Micron
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| Rambus, a designer of high-speed memory chips, may not use 12 of its patents
| to demand royalties from Micron Technology, a federal judge ruled. Judge Sue
| L. Robinson of United States District Court in Wilmington, Del., said the
| patents were unenforceable because Rambus destroyed documents, and called
| Rambus’s conduct “obstructive at best, misleading at worst.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/business/10bizbriefs-CHIPMAKERRAM_BRF.html?_r=1
Rambus Loses Another Patent Ruling For Misconduct
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090109/1859533354.shtml
Recent:
Rambus wants to stop Nvidia products from being imported into the US
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| It seems that the negotiations between Rambus and Nvidia over the licence
| fees for Rambus patents haven't been going too well. Rambus has now filed a
| complaint against Nvidia at the US International Trade Commission (USITC),
| asking the USITC to order an import ban for products with Nvidia parts
| containing memory controllers for SDRAM memory components like DDR, DDR2,
| DDR3, LPDDR, GDDR, GDDR2 and GDDR3. This probably includes most of Nvidia's
| graphics chips, mainboard chipsets and notebook chipsets, including those
| incorporated in the latest Apple notebooks as well as products by Asus, BFG,
| Biostar, Diablotek, EVGA, Gigabyte, HP, MSI, Palit, Pine and Sparkle, who
| were all explicitly listed by Rambus.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/118645
Related:
EU accuses Rambus of 'patent ambush'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_hi_te/eu_rambus_patent_ambush
Rambus Sues Nvidia
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| Rambus on Thursday said it had filed a lawsuit against Nvidia, alleging the
| graphics chip vendor had infringed on memory architecture patents owned by
| Rambus.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148236/rambus_sues_nvidia.html
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