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Rambus Reveals Royalty Rates
News Rambus executives disclosed the royalty rates it is seeking from memory manufacturers, and the numbers are higher than expected. The royalty rates also illustrate why Infineon, as well as Micron and Hyundai, have landed in court.
[May 3, 2001, 9:20]
Royalty Fees Threaten Net Radio
News Federal copyright regulators on Thursday set new royalty rates for online radio companies, halving previously proposed fees that had drawn bitter criticism from Net companies. This created a new type of royalty, as ordinary radio stations have long...
[June 21, 2002, 12:46]
Small Webcasters Take On RIAA
News The Webcaster Alliance has been threatening to sue the RIAA for months, after Congress ratified royalty rates for Internet radio stations that many small operators said will drive them out of business.
[August 28, 2003, 12:09]
EC Threatens Microsoft With More Fines
News Microsoft's current royalty rates for this agreement are unreasonable," said the Commission. The Commission said it has also seen evidence that comparable technologies to these are provided royalty-free.
[March 1, 2007, 14:44]
FTC Finds Against Rambus In Monopoly Case
News We think our royalty rates are reasonable. The FTC alleges Rambus waited for JEDEC to include its technology into the SDRAM and DDR SDRAM standards before it began seeking royalty payments from other companies using those standards.
[August 3, 2006, 9:35]
MPEG-4 Backers Protest Microsoft Licence
News MPEG LA, which represents 18 patent holders that have claims on underlying MPEG-4 technology, set licensing terms in November after concern that the original royalty rates priced adopters such as Apple out of the market.
[January 10, 2003, 7:51]
EC Hits Microsoft With Record £680m Fine
News Microsoft claimed these interfaces involved significant innovation, and initially asked companies to pay a royalty on all products using them, set at rates of 3.87 percent for a patent licence, and 2.98 percent for a licence giving access to the...
[February 27, 2008, 11:31]
Faster Wi-Fi Spec Suggested
News While both groups claim that they will comply with reasonable and nondiscriminatory (RAND) licensing terms, WWiSE said that if its proposal is accepted, its members have agreed to what it is calling RAND under zero royalty (RAND-Z).
[August 13, 2004, 10:40]
Tech Giants Plan WiMax Patent Pool
News Six technology titans are banding together to jointly license patents that cover WiMax in an effort to prevent costly royalty rates that might deter adoption of the wireless technology, according to a report on Sunday on the Wall Street Journal's...
[June 9, 2008, 8:17]
Group Sets MPEG-4 Licensing Standards
News MPEG LA, a group of patent holders governing MPEG-4, on Monday finalised licensing terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates. Apple, which bases its multimedia player on the standard, rejected the...
[July 16, 2002, 12:19]
RIM Coughs Up For JPEG Patent
News Usual royalty rates for Forgent's JPEG patent vary between a quarter of 1 percent and 1 percent of the retail cost of the device, hardware or software, Noonan explained. Generally, the royalty fees on devices such as digital cameras, where...
[October 28, 2005, 8:45]
Microsoft To Publish APIs And List Patents
News Microsoft said these royalty rates would be "reasonable and non-discriminatory". However, although the company said developers will not need to take a licence or pay a royalty or other fees to access this information, those covered by patents will...
[February 21, 2008, 16:06]
Real's Open-source Code Lacks MPEG-4
News But although it finalised video royalty rates late last year, it has yet to do so for the systems licence -- a key component for the standard's adoption. Above and beyond that, entities that wish to support stored data must also pay a separate...
[January 23, 2003, 7:28]
FTC Limits Size Of Rambus Royalties
News The commission's order calls for these maximum rates to remain in effect for three years, after which time the maximum royalty rate will fall to zero percent. The commission's order sets a maximum royalty rate of 0.25 percent for SDRAM products...
[February 6, 2007, 12:52]
Rambus In EC Antitrust Probe
News The Commission's preliminary view is that without its 'patent ambush', Rambus would not have been able to charge the royalty rates it currently does," said the Commission's statement. However, the Statement of Objections has preliminarily concluded...
[August 23, 2007, 15:31]
Microsoft Publishes More Protocol Documentation
News For those protocols that may be covered by a Microsoft patent, the company will make patent licences available at low royalty rates. As detailed in Microsoft's interoperability principles, all software developers will have access to this protocol...
[April 9, 2008, 8:45]
Musicians Attempt To Harness The Net
News These companies, such as the Digital Rights Agency and the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, help small labels place their albums inside the music services, even helping them negotiate royalty rates that might otherwise be impossible.
[June 28, 2004, 11:25]
Qualcomm Accused Of Anti-competitive Behaviour
News With every 3G handset sold, Qualcomm gets a royalty payment. However, according to the company's accusers, no matter which version of 3G is used, Qualcomm receives the same royalty. They accuse Qualcomm of offering lower prices to handset makers...
[October 31, 2005, 8:20]
Copyright Bill May Severely Limit Rights
News Last month, the Library of Congress set royalty fees for Web radio companies, ruling they would pay 0.07 cent, or about a 14th of a cent, for each song played for a single listener. They noted, however, that it leaves some loopholes and ignores...
[July 12, 2002, 8:02]
Net Radio Fees Push Some Broadcasters Underground
News As technology develops to hide Webcasters from royalty-hunters, it also will make it more difficult for them to find an audience. Tag's Trance Trip, operated by one of AOL's Nullsoft employees, went off the air just hours after the rates' release.
[July 3, 2002, 14:36]
