An appeals brief filed by lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission argues that a legal decision earlier this year by an administrative law judge favoring Rambus was incorrect, and that the chip products maker may gain as much as $3 billion in illicit royalties as a result of its allegedly fraudulent business practices. “The force of the deceptively captured JEDEC standards, not Rambus’s ability to triumph in the open marketplace, today allows Rambus to command the monopoly power it unquestionably enjoys; the power to reap from $1 billion to $3 billion in royalties, ultimately from consumers,” the FTC wrote in its appeal brief.
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FTC Brief Alleges Rambus Misled Industry
Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski April 29, 2004 08:55 AMAn appeals brief filed by lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission argues that a legal decision earlier this year by an administrative law judge favoring Rambus was incorrect, and that the chip products maker may gain as much as $3 billion in illicit royalties as a result of its allegedly fraudulent business practices. “The force of the deceptively captured JEDEC standards, not Rambus’s ability to triumph in the open marketplace, today allows Rambus to command the monopoly power it unquestionably enjoys; the power to reap from $1 billion to $3 billion in royalties, ultimately from consumers,” the FTC wrote in its appeal brief.