Motorola Solutions Wins Trade Secret Theft and Copyright Infringement Lawsuits Against Hytera
February 14 2020 - 3:02PM
Business Wire
Verdict confirms that Hytera engaged in illegal
trade secret theft and copyright infringement, validating Motorola
Solutions’ global litigation against Hytera
Jury awards Motorola Solutions $764.6 million
in compensatory and punitive damages, the maximum amount
requested
Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI) today announced that a jury
in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
has decided in favor of Motorola Solutions in its trade secret
theft and copyright infringement case against Hytera Communications
Corporation Limited (SHE: 002583) of Shenzhen, China; Hytera
America, Inc.; and Hytera Communications America (West), Inc.
(collectively, “Hytera”). In connection with this verdict, the jury
awarded Motorola Solutions $345.8 million in compensatory damages
and $418.8 million in punitive damages, for a total of $764.6
million. Significantly, Motorola Solutions was awarded the maximum
amount it requested. Following this verdict, the company will seek
a worldwide injunction preventing Hytera from further
misappropriating Motorola Solutions’ stolen trade secrets and
infringing its copyrights.
“Today’s verdict is a tremendous victory for our company,” said
Greg Brown, chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions. “Motorola
Solutions has always invested significantly in research and
development to bring pioneering and beneficial technology to our
customers around the world. In contrast, Hytera was simply
profiting off of the hard work and innovation of our world-class
engineers. The jury’s verdict validates our global litigation
against Hytera by definitively affirming that stealing trade
secrets and source code will not be tolerated.”
“We are pleased that, as in other jurisdictions around the
world, the jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois found that Hytera intentionally violated the
law by misappropriating and infringing Motorola Solutions’
intellectual property,” said Mark Hacker, general counsel and chief
administrative officer, Motorola Solutions. “We remain committed to
defending our valuable intellectual property and ensuring that
Hytera is punished for its deceptive and illegal acts as we
continue delivering exceptional products and solutions for our
customers.”
As previously announced, the trade secret theft complaint,
initially filed on March 14, 2017, asserted that Hytera’s two-way
radios and repeaters are utilizing stolen Motorola Solutions trade
secrets. The company amended its complaint on July 30, 2018, to
include copyright infringement allegations, asserting that Hytera
also unlawfully copied Motorola Solutions’ source code into the
source code used in Hytera products in violation of U.S. copyright
laws. The evidence presented at trial demonstrated that Hytera
stole over 10,000 Motorola Solutions confidential documents,
millions of lines of Motorola Solutions’ highly confidential source
code and took steps to conceal its theft to avoid detection.
Remarkably, after steadfastly denying any wrongdoing in the years
prior to trial, Hytera admitted during trial that in fact it has
those thousands of Motorola Solutions confidential documents in its
possession and that even today some of its products still contain
stolen Motorola Solutions source code.
Today’s decision relates to claims that are separate from
Motorola Solutions’ patent infringement case against Hytera, which
is pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
Illinois and is expected to proceed to trial in late 2020 or early
2021. That case asserts that Hytera’s two-way radios, repeaters,
and dispatch systems are infringing seven patents owned by Motorola
Solutions, and that Hytera’s “redesigned” i-Series products are
infringing at least four of those patents. These are U.S. Patent
Nos. 6,591,111; 7,369,869; 7,729,701; 8,032,169; 8,116,284;
8,279,991; and 9,099,972. The U.S. International Trade Commission
(ITC) previously ruled that Hytera’s two-way radios and repeaters
infringe four of those patents and issued exclusion orders
prohibiting the importation and sale of certain Hytera products in
the U.S. Hytera did not appeal the ITC’s ruling.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is acting as legal counsel to Motorola
Solutions.
For additional information regarding Motorola Solutions' legal
actions against Hytera, please visit
https://newsroom.motorolasolutions.com/presskits/motorola-solutions-intellectual-property.htm.
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including statements regarding expectations with respect to
litigation filed by Motorola Solutions, Inc., and the outcomes
possible if successful. By their nature, forward-looking statements
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