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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Canadian sues Dell over RAMBus laboratory technology



A research laboratory in Canada have taken legal action against the hardware giant Dell for infringement of a patent, he says himself.



The Alberta Telecommunications Research Center, which serves as TR Labs, the action begins in a Northern California district court last week.

Tr Labs says it owns u. S. patent 5361277, entitled "Method and apparatus for clock distribution and clock synchronization," invented by tr Labs' chief scientist of Systems Research Network, a Dr. Wayne Grove. Dr. Grove has written a book called Clocking scheme and in 1999 was named Canada by IEEE's outstanding engineering organization.

The patent in question was submitted on 30 March 1989 and granted on November 1, 1994 - similar to a Canadian patent application was filed, April 27, 1988 and number 1301261.

Dell says the claim is a product of pregnancy RDRAM Licensee and that the experiences of three Labs patent. Tr Labs, Dell wants to pay a reasonable royalty rate to compensate for the current use and legal costs.

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