Agile Materials & Technologies, Inc. Sues Paratek Microwave, Inc. For Patent Infringement, Breach of Contract, and Unfair Competition.GOLETA, Calif. -- Agile Materials and Technologies, Inc. (Agile), the technology leader in tunable wireless components, announced today that it has served a lawsuit against Paratek Microwave, Inc. of Columbia, Maryland. The lawsuit alleges patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. , breach of contract and unfair competition. An innovator in the field of tunable capacitors, tunable filters, and phase shifters, Agile is committed to vigorously protecting its intellectual property. Agile develops and produces tunable RF and microwave component families using proprietary processes that for the first time, enable manufacturers to create high performance power-efficient parts for nearly half the cost incurred using conventional devices. These families of products include phase shifters, tunable matching networks, tunable filters and custom designed tunable passive circuits for the wireless communications industry. About the Company Founded in 1999, Agile Materials and Technologies, Inc. is the technology leader in tunable wireless components that enable commercial and military RF communications manufacturers to significantly decrease the number of components required for multi-mode systems, reducing device size, power consumption, complexity and cost. The company evolved from a Defense Advanced Research Project Administration (DARPA DARPA: see Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The name given to the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency during the 1980s. It was later renamed back to ARPA. ) funded research project on Frequency Agile materials (FAME) at the University of California, Santa Barbara History The predecessor to UCSB, Santa Barbara State College, focused on teacher training, industrial arts, home economics, and foreign languages. Intense lobbying by an interest group in the City of Santa Barbara led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase persuaded the State , and has successfully commercialized its proprietary method to harness the unique properties of a thin-film ferroelectric Refers to a material that functions similarly to a ferromagnetic material in that it can be polarized into two states. Ferroelectric devices generally do not have any "ferrous" (iron) in them. See FeRAM and ferroelectric capacitor. material called Barium Strontium Titanate (BST (convention) BST - British Summer Time. The name for daylight-saving time in the UK GMT time zone. ). Unlike GaAs, MEMs, or thick-film technologies, Agile's technology facilitates the design and fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. of high-performance tunable components that for the first time cost-effectively allow a single wireless device to operate over a range of frequencies and formats. |
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