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California-Based Chip Designer Rambus Found Guilty of Fraud in Patent Case.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)

| May 10, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2007 San Jose Mercury News. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Therese Poletti

May 10--Rambus suffered another major legal blow Wednesday, when a federal jury found the memory-chip designer guilty of fraud in a patent dispute and ordered the company to pay $3.5 million in punitive damages to German chip maker Infineon Technologies.

If sustained on appeal, the verdict could wipe out a huge source of revenue for Rambus: royalties on its patented memory-interface technologies, which are used in almost every computer memory chip.

In August, Los Altos-based Rambus filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Infineon in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va. The suit was Rambus' first attempt to defend some of its key patents.

Last week, U.S. District …

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