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US patent office rejects Rambus claims against Nvidia

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On July 15, 2009, 2:15 PM EST

The US Patent and Trademark Office has initially rejected all of the patent infringement claims made by Rambus against Nvidia. In all, the trigger-happy memory maker claims that Nvidia’s GPUs have infringed on 17 separate patents. The alleged infringements span across a multitude of products, including those with memory controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR and GDDR3 SDRAM.

The case was first opened in June of last year and has been on-going since. Rambus has brushed off the rejections, saying that the patent office’s reaction is a part of the process. It’s a procedure they know all too well, having spent $300 million on legal disputes with chip makers since 2000. While this battle has resulted in a loss, Rambus feels that the war is far from over.

The company is ultimately seeking royalties on memory circuits used in Nvidia’s products. Rambus has been awarded millions in past suits, so there’s no telling how things will turn out with the pending case; but we’d love to hear your predictions.

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tengeta
on July 15, 2009
6:35 PM

HAHA.

Thats all I have to say about that, Scambus.

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Rick
on July 15, 2009
6:45 PM

Scambus... absolutely.

They are going to the SCO route, trying to achieve success through litigation.

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Guest
on July 15, 2009
7:09 PM

The sooner Rambus is out of business and gone forever the better.

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Tekkaraiden
on July 15, 2009
9:22 PM

If they hadn't been a bunch of greedy bastards every computer would have rambus memory. Here's hoping Nvidia takes them out.

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