27.08.2007 10:05 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com
EU Launched Investigation about Rambus Business Practices
Rambus is a well-known company for computer memories, mostly for launching numerous legal actions against memory manufacturers for patent infringements; usually leading to important financial compensations, than for bringing true "revolutionizing" products. The company is even rumored to invest more in lawyers than in R&D.
But it is time for a change, and Rambus is now the target of an anti-trust action launched by the European Union on abuse of a dominant position:
The European Commission can confirm that it has sent a Statement of Objections (SO) to Rambus on 30 July 2007. The SO outlines the Commissions preliminary view that Rambus has infringed EC Treaty rules on abuse of a dominant position (Article 82) by claiming unreasonable royalties for the use of certain patents for Dynamic Random Access Memory chips (DRAMS) subseque
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