April 02, 2024
An Illinois federal judge imposed a daily $1 million fine and other steep contempt sanctions against Hytera Communications on Tuesday, as she ripped the company for violating her order to refrain from participating in Chinese litigation that could undermine Motorola Solutions' $530 million mobile radio trade secrets trial win.
March 25, 2024
An Illinois federal judge granted Motorola's request to stop Hytera from pursuing a non-infringement case against it in China, saying Monday that she would also start contempt proceedings in the case.
March 12, 2024
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday granted Motorola's request for an order blocking major Chinese radio company Hytera from pursuing a bid in China to keep Motorola from shutting down a Chinese case in which Hytera claimed it doesn't use Motorola's intellectual property.
February 21, 2024
While Motorola defends its $540 million trade secret win against a major Chinese radio company at the Seventh Circuit, the tech giant asked an Illinois federal judge to look into whether its rival has continued using Motorola trade secrets without paying a royalty and should be held in contempt.
August 28, 2023
Citing a major Chinese radio company's "recalcitrance" to paying money of any kind in its blockbuster intellectual property war with the Motorola brand, a federal judge in Illinois has decided to try banning it "from selling any products containing two-way radio technology anywhere in the world."
August 23, 2023
The only way to stop Chinese telecom Hytera from giving an Illinois federal court the runaround when it comes to $49 million in royalty payments it owes Motorola Solutions is to ban the company from selling the two-way radios that use Motorola's mobile radio code without permission, the company told the court.
July 12, 2023
Chinese telecom company Hytera will face a contempt hearing next month unless it puts $49 million into escrow to comply with its royalty payment obligations after a jury found it misappropriated Motorola Solutions' mobile radio code, an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.
October 19, 2022
Motorola wants an Illinois federal court to rule on its contempt motion against Chinese telecom company Hytera in what Motorola said is now a more than $631 million trade secrets fight over two-way radios, claiming, "Hytera has bobbed and weaved through a web of lies."
August 04, 2022
Motorola is urging an Illinois federal judge to sanction Chinese telecom company Hytera for missing a deadline to make the first payment of a $597 million judgment, saying that Hytera's failure shows a "complete, willful disregard for this court's authority and rulings."
July 06, 2022
Motorola has failed to persuade an Illinois federal judge to reconsider his refusal to impose a permanent injunction against Hytera in a $597 million trade secrets fight over two-way radios, though the judge affirmed the parties' joint proposal on Hytera's royalty payments to Motorola.