another post from Silvia worth reading
silvia3 hours ago
Let us take a walk down memory lane ---- for those who are memory challenged
"On January 22, 2019, patent litigation initiated by Smart Modular Technologies ("Smart Modular") against Netlist regarding U.S. Patent No. 8,250,295 ("the '295 patent") was dismissed with prejudice by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Netlist and Smart Modular jointly agreed to drop claims against one another including counter claims Netlist brought against Smart Modular and the '295 patent.
It was patent litigation initiated by Smart, dismissed with prejudice (as SMART lost ALL claims in their 295 patent) and NLST dropped the counter claims against SMART. I think it could NOT be more clear.
"On January 31, 2019 the United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), in response to Google's rehearing request, denied rehearing of the PTAB's previous decision upholding the validity of claims in Netlist's '912 patent. The PTAB's extensive rehearing decision rejected Google's three main points involving memory modules and the specific use of rank-selecting signals for rank multiplication. Google began its petition for reexamination of the '912 patent starting in 2010. Netlist believes the teachings of the '912 patent can be found in standards now being established for server memory modules at DDR5."
Again, the specific use of RANK MULTIPLICATION as taught by NLST's 912 patent defeated SMART's 295 RANK MULTIPLICATION patent, and defeated Google's main arguments of rank-selecting signals in the patent court and upheld by the federal district court.
And finally, RANK MULTIPLICATION has been used in all LRDIMM modules since they were introduced with DDR3 in 2010-2011 and discovery at the trial will show that Google has been using this technology for over a decade (imho).
