October 14, 2025
Motorola Solutions argued Tuesday that Chinese rival Hytera Communications Corp. should pay the full $371.7 million it still owes on a 2020 judgment and be permanently blocked from selling any mobile two-way radios using stolen source code so their long-running trade theft dispute in Illinois federal court can be brought to a just close.
September 12, 2025
Hytera Communications Corp. has urged an Illinois federal judge to reject Motorola Solutions' bid to hold it in contempt for using subsidiary sale funds to pay off lenders instead of paying Motorola what it's owed under a trade secrets judgment, arguing it shouldn't be punished for conducting ordinary business.
August 22, 2025
An Illinois federal judge issued a contempt order against Hytera Communications on Friday, granting Motorola's request after its Chinese rival sold a subsidiary for €75.5 million while owing Motorola $489 million for a trade secrets theft judgment and under a court-ordered prohibition on transferring assets.
July 30, 2025
Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd. must immediately place $69 million of proceeds of a subsidiary sale in escrow in light of the Chinese company's outstanding judgment and asset citation obligations in Motorola Solutions Inc.'s mobile radio trade theft case, an Illinois federal judge said Wednesday.
July 29, 2025
Motorola has urged an Illinois federal court to hold Hytera in contempt for selling off its Teltronic subsidiary without telling the court or Motorola, saying it still owes Motorola hundreds of millions of dollars toward a $489 million debt it owes in a trade secrets fight over two-way radios.
January 29, 2025
Motorola on Tuesday urged an Illinois federal court to have its Chinese rival Hytera Communications pay no less than $14.6 million in copyright infringement damages in their long-running spat over digital two-way radios, saying Hytera had not met its burden of disputing the amount Motorola had already reduced from $46 million.
August 30, 2024
As Hytera Communications said Friday that its massive radio redesign was enough to show it shouldn't be held in contempt for allegedly continuing to use stolen Motorola Solutions trade secrets, an Illinois federal judge interrupted to ask why Hytera didn't ask the court for more guidance to better target its efforts.
August 26, 2024
Motorola Solutions told an Illinois federal judge Monday that Chinese rival Hytera Communications owes more than $58 million in royalties for a mobile radio it purportedly redesigned after a jury found it misappropriated trade secrets, asserting the radio's retooled source code is still improperly based on the same protected architecture.
August 15, 2024
Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd. says it should not be held in contempt for allegedly failing to pay Motorola Solutions royalties on mobile radios it redesigned after getting slapped with a trade secret theft verdict, arguing that evidence proves that Hytera redesigned its products "module by module, line by line."
July 30, 2024
Hytera Communications should be held in contempt for shirking royalty obligations on its latest line of digital mobile radio products because evidence shows the company's entire redesign process was "infected" with stolen trade secrets, Motorola Solutions argued Monday.