MaxLinear Says Silicon Laboratories Patent Lawsuit is Without Merit

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  • MaxLinear’s Declaratory Judgment Action Against Silicon Labs Proceeding in Federal Court

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MaxLinear, Inc., a leading provider of integrated radio frequency and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for broadband communications applications, said today that, based on its initial investigation, the July 18 patent infringement lawsuit against the company by Silicon Laboratories lacks merit.

Last May, MaxLinear filed its own complaint in U.S. District Court against Silicon Labs, seeking a declaratory judgment to obtain a ruling that MaxLinear products do not infringe nineteen patents owned by Silicon Laboratories. The declaratory judgment complaint further seeks a ruling that the Silicon Labs patents are invalid.

The Silicon Labs complaint filed yesterday appears to be part of that company’s continuing pattern of making false accusations against the company. MaxLinear contends that Silicon Laboratories filed this patent infringement lawsuit in hopes of disrupting the company’s customer relationships and obscuring the reality that their products cannot match the features and performance of MaxLinear’s products.

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MaxLinear, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated radio-frequency and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for broadband communications applications. MaxLinear is located in Carlsbad, California, and its address on the Internet is www.maxlinear.com.

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Source: MaxLinear, Inc.

Released July 19, 2012