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Technology & Science

Sep. 11, 2007

Tech Company Settles Option-Grants Backdating Class Action

SAN JOSE - The surprise decision by Los Altos-based technology company Rambus Inc. to pay $18 million to settle a backdating class action may re-open a lucrative plaintiffs' litigation strategy that had been discounted as too difficult to win.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN JOSE - The surprise decision by Los Altos-based technology company Rambus Inc. to pay $18 million to settle a backdating class action may re-open a lucrative plaintiffs' litigation strategy that had been discounted as too difficult to win.
      Attorneys for Rambus and plaintiffs who filed the class action a year ago surprised U.S. Distri...

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