One of the lawyers bringing a class action suit against Google alleges that the company filed a patent for using the sort of payload data it collected, proving that this was no accident.

FORBES: Calm Down: Google's Wifi Scraping Is Not A Big Deal

Should RDRAM never gain the wide acceptance the company had hoped for, Rambus' patent claims are an attempt to ensure the company gets a piece of the action through royalty payments, no matter what type of memory takes hold, whether SDRAM, DDR or its preferred RDRAM.

FORBES: Rambus Patent Army Marches On

WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 9, 2012) - Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today learned that the Judge in a patent action brought by Mformation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has granted RIM's motion for judgment as a matter of law, concluding that the evidence did not support the Jury's finding of patent infringement.

ENGADGET: RIM escapes $147.2 million hit as Mformation appeal ends in victory