Way back when, a long time ago, Company X granted Company Y a broad license to some of Company's X's patents. Let's call them the "Original Patents".
Company X later assigns the Original Patents to Company Z. But Company Z thinks the Original Patents didn't go far enough in making claims to the subject matter of the
Top legal writer Alison Frankel wrote a first class piece on Rambus's stunning loss this week of a price-fixing case against two chip makers that, ahem, had confessed to fixing prices. See .
Rambus accused Hynix and Micron ruined a sweet deal with Intel, which agreed to build Rambus technology into Intel chips. Micron and
The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition enforces U.S. pro-competition laws in tandem — and at times in competition with — the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Like its DOJ cousin, the Bureau seeks to curb anticompetitive conduct, such as price-fixing and rivalry-reducing mergers. And, more so than in the recent past, it has taken action to
You could put an eye out with that gavel.
Intel Corporation has made peace with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., the companies announced in IDENTICAL press releases today (here and here). The money part said:
[Blah blah blah,] and Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion. Intel has also agreed to abide