Tuesday, March 20, 2007
The Federal Trade Commission has temporarily suspended portions of its earlier rulings against Rambus Inc., allowing Rambus to appeal the agency's recent antitrust rulings.
Rambus said Monday (March 19) it will use the stay to appeal the FTC's liability and remedy orders issued last month.
The FTC limited the maximum royalty rates Rambus could collect on SDRAM and DDR SDRAM licenses, among other technologies. The ruling did not apply to DDR2 SDRAM licenses.
Rambus said the FTC order does not prevent it from collecting royalities on past use of its technologies. "This matter deals with conduct that allegedly took place many years ago, and we intend to appeal the commission's full order," Tom Lavelle, general counsel for Rambus, said in a statement.
Saying it wanted to preserve competition in the memory market, the FTC set maximum royalty rates for some Rambus Inc. memory technologies and ordered the intellectual-property vendor to establish internal procedures to ensure full disclosure of its patents and patent applications to standards groups.
The commission ruled last August that Rambus monopolized the memory chip market.
By: DocMemory
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