GigOptix Responds to Patent Infringement Allegations

GigOptix, Inc.

, a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor and optical communications components, today announced that it has this afternoon learned from a press release issued by M/A-COM Technology Solutions, Inc. (“MACOM”) that MACOM has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against GigOptix alleging that GigOptix' polymer technology is infringing on two patents in which MACOM claims rights. This new lawsuit was filed without any prior demands or notice by MACOM to GigOptix even though the GigOptix lawsuit in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California against MACOM, its subsidiary Optomai, Inc., and three of GigOptix' former employees for misappropriation of confidential information and trade secrets and breach of