Rambus (RMBS)

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FROM MURIS'
Looking Forward:
The Federal Trade Commission and the
Future Development of U.S. Competition Policy

Remarks by
Timothy J. Muris
Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
Milton Handler Annual Antitrust Review
December 10, 2002
New York, New York:

"90. Rambus Inc., Dkt. No. 9302, Complaint ¶ 1 (June 18, 2002) (complaint issued) (pending before administrative law judge), available at <http://www.ftc.gov/os/2002/06/rambuscmp.htm>. The complaint alleges that:

Rambus's anticompetitive scheme involved participating in the work of an industry standard-setting organization, known as JEDEC, without making it known to JEDEC or to its members that Rambus was actively working to develop, and did in fact possess, both patents and pending patent applications that involved specific technologies proposed for and ultimately adopted in the relevant standards. By concealing this information - in violation of JEDEC's own operating rules and procedures - and through other bad-faith, deceptive conduct, Rambus purposefully sought to and did convey to JEDEC the materially false and misleading impression that it possessed no relevant intellectual property rights. Rambus's anticompetitive scheme further entailed perfecting its patent rights over those same technologies and then, once the standards had become widely adopted within the DRAM industry, enforcing such patents worldwide against companies manufacturing memory products in compliance with the standards.
Complaint ¶ 2."

The current Chairman and Commissioners are:
Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman
Pamela Jones Harbour, Jon Leibowitz, William E. Kovacic, and J. Thomas Rosch.

At the time of the Complaint
These were the evil ones:
Timothy J. Muris, Chairman
Sheila F. Anthony
Mozelle W. Thompson
Orson Swindle
Thomas B. Leary