[Scuddie]

Los Altos, Calif.-based Rambus announced Monday that it had filed suit against the world's largest memory manufacturer in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California. It also said it has added Samsung as a defendant in a pending case originally filed against other memory manufacturers.

In all, the claims involve 35 patents. Rambus alleges the Samsung products that violate its patent include SDRAM (the most common type of PC memory used in the 1990s), DDR memory (the most common type now), DDR2 memory, and GDDR2 and GDDR3 graphics memory.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5734443.html

Great.  Just as RAM prices were starting to get cheap...

[Nuke]

good thing i just ordered some memory

did i ever mention how much i hate patents? technological advances would progress faster if they burned the patent office down.

[MicroPsycho]

I just might do that...

[EtherShock]

I say they should only last until the person dies, or he or she passes a predefined age. They should do this with copyright as well, but that would be in an ideal world. u_u

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by EtherShock
I say they should only last until the person dies, or he or she passes a predefined age. They should do this with copyright as well, but that would be in an ideal world. u_u

I think US copyrights last 100 years - though Disney recently got that extended for things like Mickey Mouse after coughing up some rather significant "Campaign Donations".

[Liberator]

didn't they do this already?

[EtherShock]

Originally posted by Black Wolf


I think US copyrights last 100 years - though Disney recently got that extended for things like Mickey Mouse after coughing up some rather significant "Campaign Donations".

Last I heard, copyright was the life of the author + 75 years, but I think it's + 112 years now, thanks to The Mouse. Steamboat Willy was about to go into public domain. That's why they lobbied to extend all copyrights, but it's only a matter of time until the Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional, I hope. The new length inhibits creativity. The idea is stuff goes into public domain in order to stimulate creativity in society.