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ihre Aktien ab, die sie in den letzten Tagen so schön einsammeln konnten.
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Vielleicht wird das Spiel jetzt etwas zu heiß, doch so lange es immer wieder genug Stop-Loss-Oder bei einem USD gibt und der Kurs nicht signifikant höher steht, geht das Spiel wohl noch weiter.
Allen einen schönen Feierabend.
Schluß ist hier aber noch lange nicht!
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Rambus Kurs ausgesetzt. Verfahren gewonnen!
Jury awards Rambus $306.5M in damages for infringing U.S. sales; all Rambus patent claims in trial found valid and infringed
LOS ALTOS, California, United States - 4/24/2006 Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS) today announced that the jury in its month-long patent infringement trial against Hynix Semiconductor (000660.KS) has found that all ten Rambus patent claims at issue in that trial are valid and infringed. The jury also today awarded Rambus infringement damages in the amount of $306.5M, which represent compensation only for that portion of Hynix’s SDRAM, DDR SDRAM and DDR2 memory products sold in the United States. The damage award covered Hynix sales between June 2000 and the end of 2005. This award does not yet include any pre-judgment interest, which is a typical element of damages that requires further consideration by the trial judge.
Rambus will discuss the verdict during a special conference call today at 2:00 p.m. PDT. Participants may access the call at (800) 289-0529 or (913) 981-5523, access code 4521955. The call will also be webcast and can be accessed at http://investor.rambus.com/.
Rambus has also asked for permanent injunctive relief against Hynix to stop the manufacture, use, sale, or import of infringing Hynix memory products. The issue of an injunction will be addressed in future proceedings and will likely await resolution of a third phase of the Hynix case, currently expected to be tried this summer, that addresses certain Hynix counterclaims. Those Hynix counterclaims include challenges to the enforceability of Rambus patents and allegations that Rambus defamed DDR SDRAM or otherwise impeded market adoption of DDR SDRAM.
“We are very pleased with today’s result – and very thankful for the considered attention of the jury and the court in this lengthy trial,” said John Danforth, senior vice president and general counsel at Rambus. “We wish to extend our great thanks also to all those who have supported Rambus over its 16-year history and helped us get to this point. Rambus’ founders and engineers have, over the years, created tremendous innovations and great value for consumers and the industry. This work has led to industry awards, numerous patents, and recognition that Rambus solutions are far and away the correct ones to solve the memory bottleneck. We will continue that and other ground-breaking work – and also continue in our efforts to be fairly compensated for our patented inventions.”
This case was originally filed by Hynix against Rambus in August 2000 seeking declaratory judgments that 11 patents are invalid and not infringed. Rambus countersued, and eventually the case was expanded to include Hynix’s SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 memory products and 59 patent claims from 14 Rambus patents. In pre-trial proceedings, the trial judge granted summary judgment in favor of Rambus finding infringement as to 11 of the original 59 patent claims. The trial judge subsequently permitted ten patent claims to be presented to the jury at trial, including two that were the subject of the favorable summary judgment motion. The jury was asked to consider whether Hynix products infringed the remaining eight claims and to consider a variety of challenges by Hynix to the validity of all ten claims. The jury upheld Rambus’ position on each of these issues. The case was tried in the San Jose division of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the Honorable Ronald Whyte presiding.
In addition to the still pending Hynix case, Rambus has other patent cases pending against Micron (NYSE: MU), Samsung (005930.SE) and Nanya (2408.TW), addressing similar patent claims against similar products, as well as other issues. Rambus also has a pending patent case against Micron, Samsung and Nanya addressing, among other things, more advanced patented technologies as used in more advanced memory products such as DDR2, GDDR2 and GDDR3. In addition to these patent cases, Rambus has a pending antitrust case against Micron, Hynix and Samsung addressing issues that include an alleged joint boycott and the alleged use of an admitted criminal price fixing conspiracy between 1999 and 2002 to further that joint boycott.
Additional information on this and other cases can be found at www.rambus.com/investor (under Litigation Update section).
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Am schönsten finde ich den Satz: "..only for that portion of Hynix’s SDRAM, DDR SDRAM and DDR2 memory products sold in the United States. The damage award covered Hynix sales between June 2000 and the end of 2005."
Seit wann sind noch mal die 120mhz Prozessoren auf dem Markt? 1998? 1997?
Das Ganze Multipliziert mit drei - dann haben 145 weiter Firmen ganz schön viel Angst.
Ich glaube immer mehr, die drei japanischen Firmen werden jeder eine schlappe halbe Milliarde zahlen müssen.
die größten Gewinne macht man in der heißen Phase der Hausse:
Wer also richtig fett absahnen will warte auf nächste Übertreibung, vielleicht so 5 Jahre oder so.
Das Volumen hält sich aus meiner Sicht doch sehr in Grenzen. Bei den Abwärtstagen war es z.T. deutlich höher. Wo bleiben unsere Shorties ? Ab welchem Kurs fängt das Grillen an ?
Wie es gehen kann zeigt heute Rambus. Nach der Meldung über den gewonnenen Patentrechtsstreit stiegt der Kurs um 5,90 Dollar und das obwohl die Meldung erst spät kam.
Das läßt für PTSC hoffen wenn die Japaner in Texas abgeurteilt werden.
RMBS/PTSC: Chip Patents Boost Shares
Rambus (RMBS +12%) shares are sharply higher after after a California jury awarded the firm damages of $306.5 million in a patent infringement case against Hynix Semiconductor. The damages cover a portion of Hynix SDRAM, DDR SDRAM and DDR2 memory products sales in the U.S. from June 2000 to Dec 2005. Hynix has still pending litigation vs. Hynix, as well as infringement suites against Micron (NYSE: MU), Samsung and Nanya.
+20% PTSC: Patriot Scientific, another semiconductor intellectual property firm, is trading higher on both the Rambus news, and an announcement by PTSC that it will use 10% or more of its licensing revenue to buy back stock.
On Friday, Dow Jones ran a story revealing the PTSC license stream is heavily front end loaded. The company has secured $76 million in one-time-only fees that are split with its partner. Meanwhile PTSC shares outstanding have swollen to 361.8 million on April 17. As of Feb 28, the number of common shares was 307.9 million, up from 232.9 million a year earlier.
Es ahndelt sich bei dem Prozeß in Texas doch um folgende Unternehmen:
This ruling puts a halt to procedural maneuvering by the Matsushita, Panasonic, JVC, Toshiba, and NEC entities," said Dan Leckrone, chairman of the TPL Group. Mr. Leckrone noted that the Fujitsu entities, who were also defendants in the Texas action, have recently purchased a license under the MMP Portfolio, and have been dismissed from the Texas and California actions.
Panasonic und Matsushita sind meines Wissens ein Konzern. Dann wären es immer noch vier
Japaner welche zahlen müssen. Jeder in der Größenordnung welche Rambus heute erhalten hat, das wäre etwas. Laßt mal Eure Phantasie spielen........
alle fleißig daumen drücken, dann wird das schon
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Mon Apr 24 07:33:48 2006 EST
By Maxwell Murphy
A Dow Jones Newswires Column
(This column was originally published Friday.)
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Next time you pick up a slang dictionary, don't be
surprised to find the red, white and blue logo of Patriot Scientific Corp.
(PTSC) next to the entry for "one-trick pony."
Patriot Scientific, with a miniscule staff working out of its San Diego
headquarters, collects millions of dollars in licensing fees from big-name
microprocessor companies because they own the rights to key patents for
technologies used by the likes of Intel Corp. (INTC) and Hewlett-Packard Co.
(HPQ). Patriot then doles out the lion's share of this to its numerous
shareholders (who, incidentally, seem to frenetically scramble in and out of
its supremely volatile stock on the over-the-counter Bulletin Board).
For a Bulletin Board stock to pay a dividend is rare, let alone two in one
quarter like Patriot intends, something it's not shy about touting. Later this
month patriot holders will receive a 4-cent dividend for each share they own.
The company paid out 2 cents a share last month. For a roughly $1 stock - one
that's swung between below 1 cent and as high as $2.25 over the past year - a
nearly 6% yield is a real treat.
Right now it has secured license revenue from only a handful of chip makers,
albeit big ones, but some Japanese electronics companies may have to chip in if
one of Patriot's partners wins a lawsuit in a Texas court.
Also, Patriot has "put on notice" more than 150 companies, including
"practically every high-tech consumer electronics manufacturer and systems
integrator in the global marketplace," according to company press releases.
So what's the rub?
Patriot says its 10-patent portfolio includes the "core building blocks" for
hundreds of billions of dollars worth of chips sold over the past decade or so,
especially three key patents it says are "elemental to every microprocessor
design."
But combined, Intel, H-P, Fujitsu Ltd., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and
Casio Computer Co., have only paid about $76 million in one-time-only fees that
grant them licenses in perpetuity. Patriot splits that money down the middle
with its partner, the TPL Group.
Those key patents expire in 2015, leaving a finite timetable for extracting
the portfolio's value. Once it signs all the one-time licenses it can coax the
chip universe into paying, the party's over unless Patriot resurrects any of
the various business ventures of its former life, none of which ever gave it a
whiff of profits over nearly 20 years (before licensing revenues drove it into
the black last year), or it finds new and gifted ponies to ride.
In other words, buying Patriot's stock is a bet that there's several hundred
million dollars more in dividends coming. But there's nothing propping up the
stock once that dividend well runs dry (any new ventures aside), so timing an
exit seems critical.
When Patriot pays the second dividend next week, it'll have shelled out
nearly $25 million to holders in about a month's time, or about 65% of its
share of the licensing take so far. It could probably pay even more, but
keeping cash on hand seems sensible for when those patent expirations forcibly
retire the company from the licensing business.
David Pohl, Patriot's chairman, chief executive and president, wasn't
available for an interview by press time, according to a company spokesman.
Best Case Seems To Leave Little Upside
Assuming, perhaps generously, it can tap nearly all the companies on its
licensing wish list for the average fee it has commanded so far, about $15
million, more than $2 billion could be within reach. But to resolve costly
litigation, last summer Patriot reached an agreement with TPL to unify the
pair's patent portfolio and create one force to pursue licensing fees,
overcoming a major hurdle but with a significant cost to Patriot and its
investors.
Patriot's claim on the patents came from a man named Russell Fish, whose
rights it owns, while TPL's claims came from a deal struck with Fish's partner,
Charles Moore. Under the deal, the groups will split licensing revenue in half,
putting Patriot's maximum take closer to $1 billion.
If our 65% hypothesis pans out, though, that drops the total distributions to
Patriot to $650 million. Remember, that's a best-case scenario.
But there's an "X" factor: Pending litigation traded between Patriot and the
Fish family earlier this month and a dispute with Patriot's former law firm.
Under a 2004 agreement, Patriot was supposed to pay the Fish family as much
as $200 million in royalties from the licensing fees Patriot collects, in
exchange for Fish's help in proving in court any patent claims Patriot files.
If Patriot's share of the licensing revenue were to approach $2 billion, then
Fish would be entitled to the whole $199 million plus $1 million for his family
trust. That much licensing revenue appears unlikely, but Fish was nonetheless
slated to receive between 8% and 11.5% of the proceeds up to that payoff. If
Fish prevails in court, and we deduct what he'd be due from our $650 million
stab, that leaves Patriot only $575 million or so.
Its erstwhile counsel is also suing Patriot, looking for back legal fees and
a cut of the already signed licensing deals. Between this and the sticky Fish
situation, its legal disputes are the No. 1 risk factor Patriot lists in
filings.
Even if Patriot prevails in court in both cases, $575 million's still not
what it seems given the enormous and swelling number of shares the company has
outstanding.
Although it listed 361.8 million shares outstanding as of April 17, figures
Patriot provided for the cost of its 4-cent payout (nearly $16.6 million)
suggest Patriot will pay the dividend on nearly 415 million shares. So Wall
Street has bestowed a market cap on Patriot that's nearly two-thirds of our
rosiest views.
But wait, there's more. Patriot has been retiring dilutive debentures lately
and has made efforts to reduce the number of convertible warrants it has
outstanding. However, there are some disconcerting hints about just how many
more warrants exist. Patriot says in filings that there is a "possibility that
a significant number of shares, the exact number of which we do not know, of
our common stock could be issued on the conversion of the debentures." Though
it can't quantify it, there could be enough new shares issued to an investor
that it results in a change in control of Patriot, it says, so there's clearly
potential for some major dilution down the road.
The potential for as much as $1 or more in dividends on a $1 share sounds
fantastic, but it assuredly won't be if the stock price crashes when the
Patriot pony's lone trick grows stale.
(Maxwell Murphy is one of four "In the Money" columnists who take a
sophisticated look at the value of companies, and their securities, and explore
unique trading strategies.)
-By Maxwell Murphy, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5173;
maxwell.murphy@dowjones.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
04-24-06 0732ET
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Ein bezahlter Miesmacher würd ich mal sagen.
Eingespielt wurder die Meldung im eSignal allerdings erst bei Tageshoch in Amiland.
Zumindest bei mir war es so.
Gibt es ne Seite wo ich mir die Shorts anschauen kann?
Gruss
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25.04.2006 PATRIOT SCIENT. DL-,00001 WKN: 899459 Kupon/Dividenden 26.04.2006 XXXX,XX
Ich habe meine Dividende auf dem Konto
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