Hytera hits out at Motorola for adding copyright claim to lawsuit

2018/08/06

On July 30, China-based radio systems manufacturer Hytera said that it will oppose a motion from Motorola Solutions seeking to add a copyright infringement claim to a previous trade secrets complaint.
On July 30, Motorola filed a motion to amend the complaint at the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seeking to add a count of “recently-discovered” copyright infringement.
The motion claimed that Hytera copied Motorola’s confidential and copyright-protected code in one of Hytera’s competing products.
In the complaint, the company alleged that Hytera’s analogue radio products “faced extinction” and that it wouldn’t be able to develop its own digital two-way radios in time to save its “ailing business”.
As a result, Motorola claimed that Hytera “embarked on an unlawful plot to surreptitiously take Motorola’s confidential and proprietary trade secrets” to build a competing product.
Hytera also accused Motorola of changing its strategic focus from innovation to litigation.
Source:WIPR