Another update on standardization skullduggery

Richard H Stern

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2001)

This is an update on the May- June and July-August Micro Law columns on recent abuse of the standard-setting process. On 9 August, the trial judge entered about 200 pages of final orders and opinions in the case. The next day, Rambus filed a notice of appeal to the US court of appeals for the Federal Circuit, which will probably take at least a year to dispose of the appeal case. Barring the unexpected, this should be the last you hear about this particular episode of standardization skullduggery for a long time. However, there seems to be no let-up in standardization skullduggery by others.