January 13, 2021
An Illinois federal judge has cut over $200 million from a Motorola unit's $760 million win in a trade secrets trial against Hytera Corp. linked to digital walkie-talkies, saying there was a partial double recovery.
April 03, 2020
China-based Hytera told an Illinois federal judge Thursday that if he doesn't totally wipe out a $764 million verdict for Motorola or order a new trial, he should cut Motorola's actual damages to $28 million because a host of errors gave Hytera an unfair shake at trial.
March 06, 2020
To prove that Chinese two-way radio maker Hytera's products were based on technology stolen from Motorola, a Kirkland & Ellis LLP team took millions of lines of source code and a deluge of documents written in Mandarin and made them crystal clear for an Illinois federal jury.
March 06, 2020
An Illinois federal judge entered judgment Thursday on a jury's $764 million verdict for Motorola Solutions Inc. over claims that a Chinese rival stole its mobile radio trade secrets, but whether he'll globally block the rival's radio sales remains to be seen.
February 21, 2020
An Illinois federal judge intends to rule next week on whether to temporarily block Hytera Corp. from selling certain digital mobile radios globally after a $764 million verdict from a jury that found it stole Motorola Solutions LLC's trade secrets and infringed its copyrights.
February 14, 2020
Illinois federal jurors awarded Motorola Solutions LLC roughly $764 million Friday, finding Chinese rival Hytera Corp. infringed copyrights and misappropriated trade secrets to create and market a competing digital two-way radio.
February 13, 2020
Motorola Solutions LLC cast too wide a net in its $764 million digital radio trade secret theft suit and is trying to pin a few employees' bad acts on an entire company, Chinese rival Hytera Corp. told Illinois federal jurors Thursday.
February 12, 2020
Motorola Solutions asked Illinois federal jurors to award it $764 million to make a Chinese rival pay for "one of the greatest thefts in the history of technology" in closing arguments Wednesday that wrapped a three-month trade secrets trial.
November 07, 2019
Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd. poached several of Motorola Solutions LLC's former engineers to make a competing two-way digital radio using decades' worth of stolen private product information and computer code, a lawyer for Motorola told an Illinois federal jury during opening statements Thursday.
April 22, 2019
Motorola Solutions Inc. needs to do a better job preparing its witnesses to discuss precisely which trade secrets have been at the center of its two-year-old lawsuit, the Chinese radio manufacturer Hytera told an Illinois federal judge Friday.