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• The Antitrust Risks Associated With Manipulating The Standard-Setting Process.

  - 2004-10-13

  In many technology-related markets, an industry standard will emerge to provide a common framework or format to ensure interoperability among related products and to foster the development of ancillary or peripheral devices. Some standards will develop as a result of open market competition. In other cases, however, standards are created...

  Tags: antitrust, Authentication/Encryption, Dell Computer Corp., FTC, JEDEC, Rambus Inc., SECURITY, standards, Unocal Corp.

• Rambus: FTC Jumped the gun; patents for SDRAM filed well before standards group action - News

  - 2002-06-24

  Rambus Inc.'s chief legal counsel contends that the Federal Trade Commission's FTC antitrust investigation into the company can't be resolved until some outstanding patent claims are decided. Attorney John Danforth said Rambus patented the technology that made SDRAM possible and that it has rights to that technology regardless of...

  Tags: Components, FTC, HARDWARE, JEDEC, Memory, patent, Rambus Inc., Semiconductors

• Federal Trade Commission examines standards-setting procedures.

  - 2001-11-01

  Government agency looking into how high-tech companies handle IP Who polices standards bodies? Nobody, really, but the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating several high-tech companies' behavior in standards bodies in an effort to determine whether they need...

  Tags: FTC, JEDEC, patent, Quality, standards, Sun Microsystems Inc.