Hynix Semiconductor Inc. v. Rambus Inc.

PUBLIC REDACTED ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART RAMBUS’S MOTION FOR POST-VERDICT RELIEF

RONALD M. WHYTE, District Judge.

This patent/antitrust litigation involving dynamic random access memory (“DRAM”) interface technology patented by Rambus and used by Hynix, 1 among others, was bifurcated into three phases, each of which had to be tried. The issue in the first phase was whether Rambus’s patent infringement claims were barred by the doctrine of unclean hands. Hynix contended that Rambus spoliated evidence resulting in prejudice to Hynix. On January 5, 2006 the court issued its…