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across the globe,” says Mike Scott, Mouser Vice President of Semiconductors. “We always aim to provide design engineers with the latest technologies so that they can create state of the art solutions. Plessey has built its global brand recognition over the decades by being one of the true innovators in the electronics industry always pushing the boundaries to deliver novel and clever solutions.”
Michael LeGoff, Plessey’s CEO, comments, “Mouser is one of the leading distributors in the world and thus enables us to reach out to customers everywhere so that they can find out about our technologies and how they can use them to do things that could not be done any other way.”
With its broad product line, Mouser caters to design engineers and buyers by delivering What’s Next in advanced technologies.
and trade secrets and breach of the contractual and legal obligations to GigOptix of the former employees, and while certain of the individuals named as defendants by GigOptix are being investigated also by the United States Attorneys’ Office for the Northern District of California.
GigOptix does not believe that Pacific Wave Industries ever developed products practicing the claims in the two patents, and is unaware of MACOM having any such or related developments or products in the marketplace, more so during the few weeks since its assignment.
In light of MACOM’s assertion that it has made an “investment in innovation”, GigOptix expects that there will be discovery regarding MACOM’s intention in acquiring these two patents and the contribution of them to the enrichment of its “innovation” portfolio.
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GigOptix bites back at MACOM patent allegations GigOptix will be filing a response with the United States District
Court for the Northern District of California in accordance with applicable rules
GigOptix, a supplier of semiconductor and optical communications components, says it has it has reviewed the complaint for patent infringement filed against it by M/A-COM Technology Solutions (MACOM).
In its review of the complaint filed by MACOM, GigOptix notes that the complaint references a December 2008 lawsuit filed in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California entitled Pacific Wave Industries, Inc. v. University of Southern California which named GigOptix’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Lumera Corporation as a defendant.
According to GigOptix, neither Lumera nor GigOptix had any knowledge of this earlier lawsuit, and records of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California contain no proof of service of the lawsuit on Lumera, but do contain a filing by plaintiff Pacific Wave Industries stating that it had not served Lumera.
Shortly after making that filing, in June 2009, plaintiff Pacific Wave Industries dismissed Lumera as a defendant and also dismissed the entirety of the lawsuit.
According to the records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Pacific Wave Industries executed on August 10th 2013, a written assignment to MACOM of the two patents at issue in the MACOM complaint, just as the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California was continuing from August 26th, 2013 to September 23rd, 2013 for administrative reasons the trial date in the lawsuit brought by GigOptix against MACOM, its subsidiary Optomai, Inc., and three of GigOptix’ former employees for misappropriation of confidential information
GigOptix will continue to review the two patents at issue in the complaint filed by MACOM. However, while GigOptix is continuing its investigation, and recognising that the outcome is not presently known, in light of the initial discovered facts, the claims and the products, GigOptix doesn’t believe that MACOM’s actions will have any material impact on GigOptix’ financial position.
GigOptix is a fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high-speed end-to-end information streaming over the network and address emerging high-growth opportunities in the communications, industrial, defense and avionics industries.
Unveiling strange magnetic behaviour at semiconductor
interfaces A new discovery could one day lead to electronic materials that provide both computation and data storage
Alone, neither lanthanum aluminate nor strontium titanate exhibit any particularly notable properties. But when they are layered together, they become not only conductive, but also magnetic.
In the current online edition of Nature Physics, researchers at The Ohio State University report what they say is the first-ever theoretical explanation to be offered for this phenomenon since it was discovered in 2004.
Understanding how these two semiconductors interact at their interface could someday lead to a different kind of material - one that provides a single platform for computation and data storage, says Mohit Randeria, co-author of the paper and professor of physics at Ohio State.
“The whole question is, how can you take two materials which do not conduct electricity and do not have magnetic properties, make a sandwich out of them and - lo and behold - at the interface between them, charge begins to flow and interesting magnetic effects happen?” he says.
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