FROM 10 + eC Bcc, DATE TIME SUBJECT ATTACHMENT Boy { = o1/a0/1968 17-4802 ‘ldram inc, - our policy re‘afliates' attending ramus meetings or geting rambus information ‘our rdram partners receive confidential information/IP from us under our contracts. they have the right to use the information/IP under the terms of the license. they CANNOT disclose our confidential information to 3rd Parties (there are some exceptions in a few contracts for 3rd parties to do Sesigniete). ‘our partners employee's working on competitive products, e.g. ODR, might hhave access to our confidential information. they might even go to Committees like jedec to discuss DDR. BUT they are obligated as employees of our partners’ to keep our confidential information secret and to not use. our IP outside of the license scope. this applied to our partners! employees working on'sldram consortium. now however we read that sidram inc. has been set up as a corporation, this means itis a 3rd party’ and our partners cannot give 'it any of our confidential information. we cannot disclose any confidential information to sidram inc. as we have no NDA with it. this applies to anyone who is an EMPLOYEE/OFFICERIMEMBER OF THE BOARD of sidram inc. We should advise our rdram partners (or partners ike HP/apple that are ‘reputedly members of sidram inc.) that our confidential information must NOT be given to ANYONE who is an employeelofficerimember of the board of sidram inc. even if that person is also an employee oftheir company. and if they have an employee who is now an employee/officerimember of the board ‘of stdram inc. they should give back all confidential information of rambus, etc ‘will bring this up with all of our ram partners that i see next week who are members of sidram inc “ALLEN™* we should arrange to send a formal etter to the memory gm of ‘each of our dram partners that are members of sidram ine. "DAVE" we need to do likewise for HP if they have our confidential information. ‘f any of you attend a meeting with someone who you know is an employee/officer/member of the board of sidram inc. please ask them to leave the meeting. if not, please tel the partner that we cannot continue the meeting with a 3rd party present and terminate the meeting immediately the one person that we know of who falls in this category is farhad tabrizi ‘of hyundai who is also president/ceo/chairman of sldram inc. in bringing this up with partners point out that we didn't change our Policy - it has been constant as expressed in our contracts with them ‘what has changed is they set up sidram inc. as a legal entity so we have to take this action to protect our IP thanks, geoff Geoff Tate Rambus ‘Tel 650-903-3807 (NEW EXCHANGE STARTING MONDAY FEB.2: 650-944-7807) FAX 650-965-1528 (NEW EXCHANGE STARTING MONDAY FEB.2: 650-944-8080) “NOTE: THIS EMAIL MAY CONTAIN RAMBUS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION" R 212377 ‘OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY ¢x0993-001 |R 212378 OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY '¢x0993-002 |j { 1 { FROM TO cc Bcc DATE TIME ‘SUBJECT ATTACHMENT BODY Dave Roverts <éroberts@rambus com> 0173011988 185518 Re: sieram inc. - our policy fines’ attending rambus meetings or getting rambus information confidential information. we cannot disciose any confidential information >to sidram inc. as we have no NDA with it_this applies to anyone who is an >EMPLOYEE/OFFICERIMEMBER OF THE BOARD of sidram inc. >we should advise our rdram partners (or partners like HP/apple that are >reputedly members of sidram inc.) that our confidential information must >NOT be given to ANYONE who is an employeeiofficer/member of the board of >sidram inc. even if that person is also an employee of their company. and >if they have an employee who is now an employee/officerimember of the board >of sidram inc. they should give back all confidential information of >rambus, etc. | need 3 wee bit of clarification since I'm not sure how SLORAM Inc determines who is an employee versus who is a “voluntarily contributed” worker-bee. That is | suppose i's possible for our DRAM partners to have people work atfon SLORAM Inc. stuf but who aren't offically on the SLORAM Inc. employee list. Do these people also need to be on the exclusion list? Many of our partners have segregated teams so | don't think it's an issue ‘but the picture is not clear to me at some of our less motivated partners: Hyundal and Micron for example (Terry Lee is likely to fall into the murky category: working on SLORAM inc. stuff but not an SLDRAM Inc. employee). 1'm guessing its okay for a person to be privey to info from both Rambus Inc., and SLDRAM Inc. and even to attend meetings at both places so long as the NDA's are honored and IP doesn't cross boundaries. People inthis category would probably be people like Lesugi-san at Oki (also visiting us con Tuesday....a good ole Rambus boy but. ne attended SyncLink meetings in the past). test R 212379 OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY ¢x0993-003 |