April 08, 2024
An Illinois federal judge told Hytera Communications on Monday it still had not done enough to be free of serious sanctions for continuing a Chinese intellectual property suit against her orders, saying recent instant messages between Hytera and the Chinese court were not proof the case was officially over.
April 05, 2024
A Seventh Circuit panel this weekend said Hytera Communications could not be trusted after it filed a Chinese lawsuit behind an Illinois court's back and brought a $1 million daily fine upon itself, as a federal judge said she needed written proof that a Chinese court had really dismissed the suit.
April 04, 2024
Hytera Communications' daily $1 million fine and other sanctions for violating an Illinois federal judge's anti-suit injunction stayed in place Thursday as she ordered the company to submit a fourth, more "meaningful" request in China to halt a lawsuit it lodged against Motorola Solutions.
April 03, 2024
An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday refused to lift a $1 million-a-day fine and other contempt sanctions against Hytera Communications without more proof it was out of options to derail Chinese litigation Hytera started against Motorola Solutions, saying she could no longer take the company's representations at face value.
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.