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...Rambus appeared to get an advantage during a price-fixing probe of memory chip makers....
...Western Refining Inc fell 13.5 per cent to $13.42, and CVR Energy tumbled 16.3 per cent to $18.38....
...There have been EU-level probes in this area recently, including the Rambus and Qualcomm cases....
...It has looked, for example, at how Rambus charged for technology used in the memory chip industry; at Qualcomm’s dominance of third-generation mobile phone standards, and at the process by which a key Microsoft...
...Rambus’ commitments will now become legally binding....
...Rambus was charged in 2007 of abusing its leading position in the market by claiming unreasonable payments....
...“We think this is a fair resolution,” Thomas Lavelle, Rambus’ general counsel, told the Financial Times....
...European Union over how to bring greater competition to the internet browser market erupted anew late yesterday as the software company sought to preempt stringent anti-trust action being planned by Brussels.Rambus...
...A seven-year battle between the US Federal Trade Commission and Rambus, the memory-chip specialist, has ended in defeat for the FTC....
...Rambus, the memory-chip technology company, won an important victory in the highest US court....
...These include Rambus and Qualcomm, each of which he accused of steering standards in their own favour without first revealing that they already had proprietary technology in the area....
...Rambus is appealing against that decision....
...The EU’s competition commissioner has been giving US companies such as Intel, Rambus and Qualcomm a taste of the same medicine....
...Rambus, the chipmaker, fared much better, soaring 17.7 per cent to $19.44 on hopes it could claim $10bn in royalties by winning a patent infringement case....
...It is also investigating Rambus and Qualcomm, two other US technology groups. A few years ago, Brussels even dared to go after that most American of companies – Coca-Cola....
...He joined Bay Networks in 1996, working there until just after it was acquired by Nortel in 1998, and is currently a non-executive director at Rambus, the Nasdaq-listed memory chip designer....
...“Only then did Rambus reveal its patents – through patent infringement lawsuits against Jedec members who practised the standard.”...
...The Rambus announcement comes amid a wdiening scandal over stock options practices....
...The suit is filed by Stull, Stull & Brody, a leading New York litigation firm specialising in shareholders’ complaints which has recently filed suits on behalf of shareholders in Rambus, Mattel and Novellus...
...by Rambus....
...The suit is filed by Stull, Stull & Brody, a leading New York litigation firm specialising in shareholders’ complaints who have recently filed suits on behalf of shareholders in Rambus, Mattel and Novellus...
...Last year a judge rejected Rambus?...
...Rambus was a bright spot for the sector, leaping 6.7 per cent to $24.30 on news it had reached a patent licence deal with Toshiba for use of its memory controllers....
...Rambus, whose patented technology is used by many memory-chip makers, reported earnings of 9 cents a share, compared with 6 cents in the third quarter and 14 cents a year ago....
...Last week, Rambus filed patent infringement cases against Samsung and the South Korean company responded by counter-filing to seek an invalidation of four Rambus patents....
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