According to one of the attorneys of Rambus, it will be logging a request to the U.S. appeals court to revisit the recent patent rulings which involved the chip maker, he told after the hearing on Friday. Recently most of the income of Rambus is coming from its patent litigation against companies, as it constantly keeps filing lawsuit against the clients not paying for their patented technology. Most of the time winning the legal battle makes it easier for the company to negotiate additional licensing deal with the companies.
Image via CrunchBaseJust last month it was revealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, that Rambus had been wrong in its actions to shred hundreds of boxes of documents which were relevant to two of its patent infringement lawsuits it had filed earlier. This act brought down the shares of the company almost 18 percent in just one day. Out of the two simultaneously running rulings, the U.S. appeals court has discovered that Rambus has destroyed important documents regarding one of them. These documents were allegedly related to a patent suit which it had previously won in a judgment of $350 million along with an additional interest with South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor. It has been requested by the appeals court that U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte in San Jose, Calif. should review his decision of the case, after it has been brought to life that those document were destroyed by the company.This Friday, Whyte explained that both the companies have equal rights to request the Federal Circuit for revisiting the made decisions, as he restrained for giving another scheduled date for Hynix case himself. Whyte said that "How long that process is going to take is anybody's guess.” According to the attorney of Rambus, Greg Stone, he has informed Whyte that it was "likely" that the request for rehearing will be filed with the Federal Circuit. This decision was announced days before jury selection is scheduled to start a spate antitrust trial, in which Rambus is looking to get over $4.3 billion in damages from Micron and Hynix.
In second Federal Circuit ruling of Rambus, the appeals court reported that it was unambiguous that Rambus had destroyed those documents; however, it agreed that it is not sure whether such action is serious enough for a Delaware court to revert its decision against Micron. It has sent a dismissal back to the U.S. District Court in Delaware, in which added that the lower court is still deciding that whether this shredding is serious enough for Rambus to lose the case against Micron.
