Trial Notes 4/13/06 Part 1
A line outside the courthouse was anticipated. But getting there before 7am wasn’t early enough. Cal had to do battle with team Hynix for a seat in the second row. They wanted to reserve a good portion of the seats. Among other things Cal told them this is the USA, not Korea. I took their seat and a little later court security came in and announced there’s no reserving seats. After that, I decided to yell out there’s plenty of seats here. LOL. Team Hynix was quiet as a mouse the rest of the time, even when Cal was giving them some ‘shit’. There was a reporter who later on asked me some questions and also wanted comments from the Hynix side. I pointed her to the guy in suit sitting next to me. He replied that he couldn’t say anything. Cal missed the opportunity mentioning to the reporter the Hynix guy can’t say anything because he’s shell shocked. LOL.
Stone begins by thanking the jury and telling them what an awesome responsibility they have. Then his spiel begins. F&H had a dream. To increase memory bandwidth. They came outside of industry. They had un-bounded thinking. A new approach. Formed Rambus. Rambus is an idea company.
Stone quotes H (from somewhere): “To get 3.5%, they’re going to need a miracle”. No miracle, just hard work and conviction. Ideas have value. That’s why we have a patent law. The trial is about 6 patents, which are a reflection of the invention. They shared their ideas with others. And relied on the system to protect them. But some infringed.
H now says the royalty rates are too high and they can’t afford it. Rambus never heard this argument in 2000. When they wanted to spend money, they had money to spend.
H hired Taylor before lawsuit to check on patents and validity.
In 1996 Intel was looking at R to solve the BW problem. Was the R solution obvious? Lee had 100’s of EE’s working on the problem. Hynix memo showed they needed DLL and double data rate circuit. F&H teachings were not obvious, they were innovative.
H stated negotiations are sometimes delayed by 2-4 years. Sometimes 7-8 years. And then they sued. Chung thought negotiations were moving too fast. They chose SJ court because it’s known to be slow. THE DELAY HAS ENDED. The ending has yet to be written. You will write it.
