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Ruling May Aid Inquiry on Chip Pricing
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Free registration required to read the article. “A judge’s decision last week dismissing a Federal Trade Commission antitrust case against Rambus, a designer of computer memory chips, is proving to be bad news for memory chip makers on two fronts.
The decision by Stephen McGuire, the F.T.C.’s chief administrative law judge, gave Rambus a major victory in a long-running effort to collect billions of dollars in patent fees from companies that make chips.
In addition, the judge’s written opinion, released Tuesday and reported on yesterday by The Wall Street Journal, included evidence that could be used against memory chip makers in an apparently unrelated criminal antitrust investigation by the Justice Department.”