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News Release from: Intersil
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 1 November 2002

Intersil files for theft of CMAC

Intersil has filed a lawsuit against Agere Systems for theft of trade secrets.

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Intersil has filed a lawsuit for theft of trade secrets against Agere Systems with the United States District Court in Philadelphia, PA. The lawsuit charges Agere Systems with misappropriating Intersil's fundamental choice medium access control (CMAC) wireless local area network (WLAN) technology. Intersil believes that virtually all of the WLAN products being shipped by Agere today use the Intersil MAC technology.

Intersil's action seeks both an immediate and permanent injunction to prevent Agere Systems, either alone or in co-operation with others, from developing, making, and/or selling MAC chips that use Intersil's CMAC technology.

"Intersil's intellectual property is a core company asset and we want to ensure our employees, shareholders and customers that we will protect and defend to the fullest extent of the law", said Rich Beyer, President and CEO of Intersil Corporation.

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