Why the Supreme Court Was Correct to Deny Certiorari in FTC v. Rambus

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Joshua Wright, Mar 26, 2009

In November 2008, the Federal Trade Commission petitioned the Supreme Court to review the D.C. Circuit’s decision in FTC v. Rambus. That decision reversed the Commission’s finding that Rambus, a memory chip developer, knowingly failed to disclose a patent to a standard setting organization (“SSO”) and, in so doing, acquired monopoly power in violation of Section 2 of the Sherma