Stratos Lightwave and IBM Enter Optoelectronic Module Licensing Agreement
Source: Compound Semiconductor staff
Stratos Lightwave, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) has entered into a licensing agreement with IBM Corporation. The companies have agreed to cross-license certain segments of their patent portfolios, including Stratos Lightwave s patents relating to GBIC (Gigabit Interface Converters) and SFF (Small Form Factor) transceivers and receptacles, and other optoelectronic transceiver modules and receptacles. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
"The industry s growing recognition of our intellectual property is a validation of our engineering leadership in optical transceivers," says James W. McGinley, Stratos s President and CEO.
Cielo Communications, Inc., Fujikura Ltd., Molex Incorporated and Vixel Corporation have also entered into license agreements with Stratos. These licenses cover patents relating to certain technical features of Removable Optoelectronic Modules.
Stratos is a plaintiff in three lawsuits pending against Agilent Technologies, Finisar Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Infineon Technologies AG, Optical Communications Products, Inc., and Tyco Electronics involving related intellectual property rights, including certain technical features of Removable Optoelectronic Modules.
Stratos Lightwave, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells optical subsystems and components for high data rate networking, data storage, and telecommunications applications. The company is a subsidiary of Methode Electronics, Inc. See http://www.stratoslightwave.com.
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