What The Rambus Ruling Means For Intellectual Property In Standard Setting

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Anne Layne-Farrar, Feb 15, 2007

On February 5 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its final opinion in the long-running, and often convoluted, legal proceeding against Rambus, Inc., a computer technology company. The Commission began its case back in 2002, charging that Rambus had violated Section 5 of the FTC Act through the firm’s deceptive practices at the standard setting body JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engi