FTC Outlines Appeal in Rambus Case
From Associated Press
Computer chip designer Rambus Inc. could pocket up to $3 billion in royalties and raise prices for consumers of all manner of computing devices if an administrative law judge’s ruling in its favor is allowed to stand, the Federal Trade Commission contended in an appeal.
The FTC legal staff said Judge Stephen J. McGuire’s ruling was “fatally flawed” and based on factual and legal errors. In February, McGuire, the agency’s chief administrative law judge, dismissed charges that Rambus had lulled chip makers into including its patented technology in their standards.
The commission is expected to hear the FTC staff’s appeal. Any decision could then be brought before a federal appellate court.
