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Press ReleaseRambus Wins Patent Infringement Trial Against HynixJury awards Rambus $306.9M in damages for infringing U.S. sales; all Rambus patent claims in trial found valid and infringed LOS ALTOS, California, United States - 04/24/2006 Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS) today announced that the jury in its month-long patent infringement trial against Hynix Semiconductor (000660.KS) has found that all ten Rambus patent claims at issue in that trial are valid and infringed. The jury also today awarded Rambus infringement damages in the amount of $306.9M, which represent compensation only for that portion of Hynix’s SDRAM, DDR SDRAM and DDR2 memory products sold in the United States. The damage award covered Hynix sales between June 2000 and the end of 2005. This award does not yet include any pre-judgment interest, which is a typical element of damages that requires further consideration by the trial judge. Rambus will discuss the verdict during a special conference call today at 2:00 p.m. PDT. Participants may access the call at (800) 289-0529 or (913) 981-5523, access code 4521955. The call will also be webcast and can be accessed at http://investor.rambus.com/. Rambus has also asked for permanent injunctive relief against Hynix to stop the manufacture, use, sale, or import of infringing Hynix memory products. The issue of an injunction will be addressed in future proceedings and will likely await resolution of a third phase of the Hynix case, currently expected to be tried this summer, that addresses certain Hynix counterclaims. Those Hynix counterclaims include challenges to the enforceability of Rambus patents and allegations that Rambus defamed DDR SDRAM or otherwise impeded market adoption of DDR SDRAM. “We are very pleased with today’s result – and very thankful for the considered attention of the jury and the court in this lengthy trial,” said John Danforth, senior vice president and general counsel at Rambus. “We wish to extend our great thanks also to all those who have supported Rambus over its 16-year history and helped us get to this point. Rambus’ founders and engineers have, over the years, created tremendous innovations and great value for consumers and the industry. This work has led to industry awards, numerous patents, and recognition that Rambus solutions are far and away the correct ones to solve the memory bottleneck. We will continue that and other ground-breaking work – and also continue in our efforts to be fairly compensated for our patented inventions.” This case was originally filed by Hynix against Rambus in August 2000 seeking declaratory judgments that 11 patents are invalid and not infringed. Rambus countersued, and eventually the case was expanded to include Hynix’s SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 memory products and 59 patent claims from 14 Rambus patents. In pre-trial proceedings, the trial judge granted summary judgment in favor of Rambus finding infringement as to 11 of the original 59 patent claims. The trial judge subsequently permitted ten patent claims to be presented to the jury at trial, including two that were the subject of the favorable summary judgment motion. The jury was asked to consider whether Hynix products infringed the remaining eight claims and to consider a variety of challenges by Hynix to the validity of all ten claims. The jury upheld Rambus’ position on each of these issues. The case was tried in the San Jose division of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the Honorable Ronald Whyte presiding. In addition to the still pending Hynix case, Rambus has other patent cases pending against Micron (NYSE: MU), Samsung (005930.SE) and Nanya (2408.TW), addressing similar patent claims against similar products, as well as other issues. Rambus also has a pending patent case against Micron, Samsung and Nanya addressing, among other things, more advanced patented technologies as used in more advanced memory products such as DDR2, GDDR2 and GDDR3. In addition to these patent cases, Rambus has a pending antitrust case against Micron, Hynix and Samsung addressing issues that include an alleged joint boycott and the alleged use of an admitted criminal price fixing conspiracy between 1999 and 2002 to further that joint boycott. Additional information on this and other cases can be found at www.rambus.com/investor (under Litigation Update section).
Rambus Inc. 소개Rambus는 고속 칩 인터페이스의 개발과 설계를 전문으로 하는 세계 최고의 기술 라이센싱 기업 중 하나입니다. 1990년 회사가 설립된 이후 특허를 받은 당사의 혁신 기술, 핵심 기술, 그리고 명성이 있는 통합 전문기술을 통해 업계 선두의 칩 생산 및 시스템 기업들은 우수한 제품을 시장에 출시할 수 있었습니다. Rambus의 기술 및 제품은 고객이 직면하는 가장 복잡한 칩 및 시스템 레벨 인터페이스 문제를 해결하여 컴퓨팅, 통신 및 가전 제품에서 전례없는 성능을 구현할 수 있게 했습니다. Rambus는 특허를 가진 광범위한 포트폴리오의 혁신 기술, 그리고 업계를 선도하는 표준 칩 인터페이스 제품에 대한 라이센스를 제공합니다. Rambus 본사는 캘리포니아 Los Altos에 소재하고 있으며 북캐롤라이나, 인도, 독일, 일본 및 대만에 지역 사무소가 있습니다. 추가 정보는 www.rambus.com을 방문하십시오.
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