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Coming down the home stretch in the Rambus standardization skullduggery saga: To levy or not to levy royalties
March/April 2007 (vol. 27 no. 2)
pp. 80-82
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| Richard Stern, "Coming down the home stretch in the Rambus standardization skullduggery saga: To levy or not to levy royalties," IEEE Micro, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 80-82, March/April, 2007. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/MM.2007.30, author = {Richard Stern}, title = {Coming down the home stretch in the Rambus standardization skullduggery saga: To levy or not to levy royalties}, journal ={IEEE Micro}, volume = {27}, number = {2}, issn = {0272-1732}, year = {2007}, pages = {80-82}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2007.30}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Micro TI - Coming down the home stretch in the Rambus standardization skullduggery saga: To levy or not to levy royalties IS - 2 SN - 0272-1732 SP80 EP82 EPD - 80-82 A1 - Richard Stern, PY - 2007 KW - law KW - standardization KW - Rambus KW - antitrust violation KW - patents KW - skullduggery KW - Secret Squirrel KW - SDRAM KW - DDR SDRAM KW - JEDEC VL - 27 JA - IEEE Micro ER - | |||
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2007.30
The tale of Rambus' standardization skullduggery in developing JEDEC's SDRAM standard has unfolded in many Micro Law columns since the first report in the May/June 2001 issue. In February 2007, the FTC issued its final order on remedy for Rambus' unlawful conduct, holding, 3 to 2, that it would be proper to allow Rambus to continue to charge royalties for its abused patents (those used in the JEDEC standard), but the royalty should be limited to a maximum rate of 0.5 percent for double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAMs and a 0.25 percent maximum rate for SDRAMs--for three years, and after that zero. Stern's analysis, drawing on the "benefit of the bargain rule " is that Rambus should not be allowed to collect any royalties at all on the abused patents.
Index Terms:
law, standardization, Rambus, antitrust violation, patents, skullduggery, Secret Squirrel, SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, JEDEC
Citation:
Richard Stern, "Coming down the home stretch in the Rambus standardization skullduggery saga: To levy or not to levy royalties," IEEE Micro, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 80-82, March-April 2007, doi:10.1109/MM.2007.30
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