Motorola Solutions sues Hytera Communications for using stolen patents, trade secrets
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Motorola Solution sues Hytera Communications for using stolen patents, trade secrets
Each of the three engineers in question had access to details of the technology’s development and supporting documentation while at Motorola Solutions, Hacker said. Upon leaving Motorola Solutions, all signed a “Resignation NDA (non-disclosure agreement)” in which they “agreed to protect and treat as confidential all Motorola’s trade secrets and/or confidential information,” according to the lawsuit.
None of the resigning Motorola Solutions employees disclosed that they would be working for Hytera Communications or that they had conducted unauthorized downloading of Motorola Solutions intellectual property during the weeks prior to their departures, according to the lawsuit.
“Since its employees acquired these documents, Hytera has perfected the misappropriation by incorporating Motorola’s digital two-way radio technologies and related features into its products that are currently sold in the United States, which are in whole or part derived from Motorola’s trade secrets,” the lawsuit states.
“For example, Hytera implemented Motorola’s digital two-way radio features as implemented in Motorola’s proprietary MotoTRBO products, often using the exact same feature names. For instance, Hytera has incorporated the ‘VOX,’ ‘Telemetry,’ ‘Lone Worker,’ ‘Man Down,’ ‘Mixed Mode Scanning,’ ‘Phone Feature,’ and ‘GPS Revert Channel’ features, that are in whole or part derived from and/or comprise Motorola’s trade secrets.”
If the federal court rules in favor of Motorola Solutions, the company is seeking a declaration that Hytera Communications “has no rights or privileges to use Motorola’s trade secrets” and monetary damages that would include “Motorola’s lost revenues and profits” associated with Hytera Communications’ actions, according to the lawsuits.
‘VOX,’ ‘Telemetry,’ ‘Lone
‘VOX,’ ‘Telemetry,’ ‘Lone Worker,’ ‘Man Down,’ ‘Mixed Mode Scanning,’ ‘Phone Feature,’ and ‘GPS Revert Channel’ are all generic featuresand terms that someone would expect in a global digital radio standard
Motorola nonsense, as usual.
Motorola nonsense, as usual. Anyone that has been in this business for any length of time recognizes those features as something multiple manufacturers have been doing for quite some time. VOX has been around since the days of crystal radios, Man Down is incorporated in every public safety standard radio, phone interconnect features have been around since LTR was in its infancy, Mixed Mode Scanning has been around since P25 was in its beginning phases, and so on. Here is the translation: Motorola is getting there fascist butts kicked in the DMR market by a superior and better selling product. The vast majority of my former Motorola customers are buying Hytera DMR because it works and their budgets aren’t being depleted by the “radio giant”. It will be a great day when “the radio giant” finally closes their doors. I would rather deal with Communists pretending to be capitalists then a supposedly “free market” capitalist company operating as fascists. This is especially rich since the vast majority of the “radio giants” gear is made in China. The only thing American about the “radio giant” is the fact that they have a headquarters and some buildings here. Not one of their radios has truly been built or manufactured by an American in a very long time. I’m surprised that they are still allowed to do business with our government since they really don’t make anything in the U.S..
I’ll bet Motorola is really
I’ll bet Motorola is really proud of themselves, shifting engineering and product manufacturing overseas to Malaysia, and Mexico, and hiring an army of H1B Visa engineers. Yes-siree no risk or vulnerability there!
You can’t expect anything
You can’t expect anything good from China, this is their entire manufacturing paradigm, steal, copy and reproduce at a much lower price point with zero R&D, zero environmental protection and so on.
Hytera should be banned from doing business in North America quite soon, another Chinese army ran company.
All Chinese engineers working in US are potential spies, zero trust, those H1B visas need to include a security/intelligence background check ASAP.
sounds like your a little
sounds like your a little hypercritical
Motorola for may years has had their engineering for trbo and manufacturing performed in Malaysia using parts sourced from Asia. Most of their software is written in india and other countries. spare parts and logistics have all been outsourced. Management and legal live in USA.
Now Hytera has a product which is competing in the same market you say this…. Interesting move it china/asia locked motorola out and what your reaction would be then.
Why they don’t fill a suit
Why they don’t fill a suit against Vertex or Kenwood for “VOX”??? They do have a strong competition from Hytera. Both are good products, both works well but in Europe, Hytera tend to get a bigger and bigger share in DMR market. They are cheaper for the same quality.
Motorola own Vertex, so they
Motorola own Vertex, so they unlikely to be suing them any time soon. They have carefully selected the (limited) features they offer in the Vertex range to ensure the Motorola range remains the market leader.
Not at all – vertex has more
Not at all – vertex has more or less died while owned by motorola, it is sad to say but the current range is nothing to rave about.
Sad to see a once good engineering company go to the motorola dogs