Comments on: Rambus patent infringement trials put on hold

Shares of the memory chipmaker plunge after a federal judge postpones indefinitely the long-running cases filed against a slew of memory makers.

[larrynjf]

This summary on the main page is bad.

"Shares of the memory chipmaker plunge after a federal judge postpones indefinitely the long-running cases filed against a slew of memory makers."

They aren't a chip-maker, they are an IP firm aka. Patent Troll.

[Zaunto]

Can their stock price just tank to nothing, get them de-listed and put them out of their misery? It's not like this patent troll company has ever really contributed anything useful to computing anyway. They destroyed evidence that could be used against them. Isn't destruction of evidence "obstruction of justice" or some other type of felony? If we're lucky, the indefinite delay in this case will cause anyone doing business with them to cut ties and their stock just drop to nothing. We'd all be better off without Rambus

[commsoft]

I could certainly be mistake, but wasn't the current generation DDR3 RAM invented by Rambus and being produced under license? I believe these are old infringement cases, and to characterize them as nothing but a troll because they only do IP research and not manufacturing is a pretty old way of thinking.

Consider this - if the U.S. is not doing manufacturing anymore and sending almost all of it to China, couldn't the U.S. by and large be labeled a troll in the world economic ecosystem using this logic? I'm sure there are counterarguments and I'll be curious to hear them.

[jeroethel]

The word is SPOLIATION.