Motorola v. hytera: hytera was awarded 5.3 billion yuan

3 month 8 Sunday night , Hytera announced , The United States time 3 month 5 Friday night , The first instance verdict of Motorola v. hytera was released ： The local court upheld the verdict of the jury , It is judged that hytera will compensate Motorola 7.65 Billion dollars , renminbi 53.34 One hundred million yuan .

According to the earlier announcement ,2020 year 2 month 14 Japan , The jury of the northern Federal District Court of Illinois in the United States once ruled , Hytera infringes one or more trade secrets of Motorola and U.S. Copyright , And sentenced it to pay infringement damages to Motorola 34576.12 Million dollars and punitive damages 41880 Thousands of dollars , Total amount 7.65 Billion dollars .

The above case began several years ago .2017 year 3 month 15 Japan , The two wholly-owned subsidiaries of hytera, American company and American west company, received the petition served by the Illinois court , Motorola and Motorola Malaysia sued the company and the US company 、 Trade secret infringement of American West Company , Think some products of the company have infringed Motorola's trade secrets .

At the trial stage , Motorola claims that its former employees downloaded thousands of confidential documents and took them out of the company while working at Motorola . in the meantime , Hytera paid the employee without Motorola's knowledge .

Eastern time 2020 year 2 month 12 Japan , Motorola finally clarified its claim in the court trial DMR Products infringe Motorola 21 Business secrets and 4 U.S. Copyright , Require company 、 American company and American west company pay corresponding compensation for their infringement .2020 year , In this case, the jury and the judge made judgments respectively , Hainengda was sentenced to compensation 7.65 Billion dollars .

Affected by this lawsuit , earlier , Hytera has significantly revised the previously announced 2019 Annual performance expectations .2 month 28 Japan , Hytera general 2019 Expected annual profit 4.8 One hundred million yuan -5.8 Billion yuan is revised to the estimated loss 47.54 One hundred million yuan -48.54 One hundred million yuan . Disclosed on the same day 2019 The annual results express , Past year , Hytera achieves operating income 86.5 One hundred million yuan , Year-on-year growth 24.76%; Realize the net profit attributable to the shareholders of the listed company -47.75 One hundred million yuan , Year-on-year decline in 1101.41%.

Hytera is now actively preparing to appeal . said , For this judgment , Within the limitation period, the company will file a motion to the Illinois court for retrial of the case and the court to change the judgment according to law ; If the court does not support the company's motion , The company will appeal to the court of appeal , To safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the company . The appeal process usually lasts 2-3 year .

The staff of the Secretary Office of hytera told reporters earlier , At present, hytera and Motorola have lawsuits in many places in China . In addition to the U.S. , Motorola has also sued hytera's Australian subsidiary 、 German subsidiary , All are patent infringement lawsuits . Besides , Motorola also applied ITC（ U.S. International Trade Commission ） Patent investigation of hytera . Regarding this , Hytera also filed a series of counterclaims , Including the cases of suing Motorola for patent infringement and the abuse of market dominance by relevant Chinese subsidiaries .

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