Opening statements given in Rambus/Infineon trial

Jack Robertson of EB News reports on the legal strategies that Rambus Inc. and Infineon Technologies AG say they will use against one another in the patent violation suit that began Monday. Rambus says Infineon stole Rambus DRAM intellectual property and put it in the JEDEC SDRAM standard. Infineon says that Rambus altered patents in 1998 and 1999 to cover SDRAM technology years after the rest of the industry had adopted them as part of its open standard.

Infineon says that Rambus documents show that the company purposely designed a patent that would cover existing technologies. Rambus has also added a fairness argument, saying that companies paying Rambus licenses fees are competitively disadvantaged by Infineon and others that are not paying.

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