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Intellectual Property

May 17, 2011

Rambus Takes Blow from Federal Circuit

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Sunnyvale-based chip designer Rambus Inc. deliberately destroyed evidence in a decision that casts serious doubt over the company's ability to win hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.


By Craig Anderson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Sunnyvale-based chip designer Rambus Inc. deliberately destroyed evidence in a decision that casts serious doubt over the company's ability to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from two memory chip manufacturers.


The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit supported a Delaware federal judge's 2009 conclusion that Rambus executi...

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