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From Bloomberg:

[...BOSTON LAW FIRM FILES BRIEF REGARDING RAMBUS V.S. INFINEON

(The following is a reformatted version of a press release issued by Lucasch, Gesmer & Updegrove and received via electronic mail. The release was confirmed by the sender.)

March 11, 2002

Boston Law Firm Files "Friend of the Court" Brief on Behalf of Major Standard Setting Organizations

SDO's Fear Landmark Case Holding may Undermine Hundreds of Already Adopted Standards

March 11, 2002 Boston-based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP today announced that it had filed a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of six major standard setting organizations (SDOs) in an effort to influence the outcome of Rambus v. Infineon, one of the most closely watched cases in the technology industry. The organizations supporting the brief boast more than 850 members, including the great majority of the most prominent technology companies in the world.

Rambus v. Infineon has been followed with particular interest by the thousands of companies that participate in technical standard setting, because the trial court had concluded that Rambus, at the time a member of the Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council (JEDEC), had committed fraud by failing to disclose patent rights which it later asserted against adopters of a JEDEC memory standard. Infineon was one such adopter, and when it refused to pay royalties, Rambus sued...]

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