路透社：美国专利商标局驳回 RAMBUS 对 NVIDIA 的所有专利诉求

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Nvidia wins round against Rambus in patent fight
Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:49pm EDT  
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday tentatively invalidated several Rambus Inc patents key to the microchip designer's disputes against graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp.

The patent office "has now initially rejected all of the patent claims asserted by Rambus against Nvidia in the ITC," or U.S. International Trade Commission, Nvidia general counsel David Shannon said in a statement.

Rambus replied that the game is hardly over.

"The recent action by the (patent office) to re-examine Rambus patents is part of the process and Rambus will have an opportunity to respond," Rambus said.

Rambus, which has spent $300 million on legal disputes with chip makers since 2000, wants Nvidia to pay royalties on memory circuits used in Nvidia graphics chips.

"Nvidia appears to have won one round in a multi-round contest, so we have a lot more decisions to make before they can declare final victory," said David Wu of Global Crown Capital.

The dispute began in June, 2008, when Rambus filed suit in federal court in San Francisco charging that Nvidia had infringed 17 patents. No dollar amount was attached to the suit, but Rambus has won millions in similar suits.

In November, Rambus also filed before the International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., a U.S. agency that may bar disputed imports, concerning nine of those patents.

The ITC administrative process is quicker than the federal court and could influence the judge in San Francisco, Susan Illston. Illston suspended proceedings to await the ITC ruling.

In Washington, Nvidia defended itself in the ITC case by challenging Rambus's patents, telling the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office they were based on old ideas.

In June, a U.S. patent examiner agreed with Nvidia that the office had made a mistake in issuing the patents. This week, the patent examiner agreed again on even more claims.

In between those two decisions, Rambus asked the ITC to drop some of its claims. Now Rambus and Nvidia will each argue their side in writing to the patent office.

Analysts say their bigger concern is over another suit involving Nvidia, in a dispute with Intel over a licensing agreement. That is being played out in a Delaware state court.

(Reporting by David Lawsky; editing by Carol Bishopric)

http://www.reuters.com/article/t ... USTRE56D70M20090714

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NV推倒RAMBUS，并将省下来的费用继续投资于开发新式马甲和5毛预算，目标是在DX11时代用ARM+CUDA占据90%以上的市场份额

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Nvidia公司赢得一轮针对Rambus的专利斗争
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旧金山（路透社） -美国专利和商标局在周二暂时无效几个Rambus公司专利公司的关键，芯片设计师的争端对图形芯片制造商NVIDIA公司

专利局“现在已经开始拒绝了所有的专利诉讼主张由Rambus对Nvidia公司在国贸中心” ，或美国国际贸易委员会， Nvidia的首席法律顾问大卫香农在一份声明中说。

Rambus公司答复说，该游戏是很难的。

“最近采取的行动（专利局）重新审查Rambus专利是这一进程的一部分和Rambus公司将有机会作出回应， ” Rambus称。

Rambus公司，它已花费3亿美元的法律纠纷与芯片制造商自2000年以来，希望Nvidia的支付版税的存储器电路中使用的Nvidia图形芯片。

“ NVIDIA公司似乎已经赢得第一轮在多轮比赛，所以我们还有很多的决定作出后，才能宣布最后的胜利， ”大卫说吴全球官方资本。

争端6月开始， 2008年， Rambus公司提起诉讼时，联邦法院在旧金山收费是Nvidia侵犯17项专利。没有金额重视诉讼，但Rambus公司赢得了数百万美元的类似诉讼。

去年11月， Rambus公司还提出在国际贸易委员会在华盛顿特区，美国机构，可能会有争议的酒吧进口，涉及9人的专利。

美国国际贸易委员会行政进程快于联邦法院，并可能影响法官在旧金山，苏珊Illston 。 Illston中止诉讼，等待美国国际贸易委员会的裁决。

在华盛顿， Nvidia的捍卫自己的贸易中心的情况下挑战Rambus公司的专利，向美国专利和商标局，他们是根据旧观念。

今年6月，美国的专利审查员同意Nvidia的，该厅犯了一个错误在签发专利。这个星期，专利审查员同意再次更索赔。

在这两个决定， Rambus公司要求ITC减少一些索赔。现在Rambus公司和Nvidia公司都将认为他们一边以书面形式向专利局。

分析人士说，他们的更大关注的是另一诉讼涉及Nvidia公司的争端中，与英特尔的使用许可协议。这是正在发挥出在特拉华州法院。

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