ARLA/CLUSTER: Violação de Copyright em DMR: Motorola vence processo contra Hytera no valor 764,6 Milhões de dólares

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Copyright infringement: Motorola wins case against Hytera

The ARRL report Motorola wins multimillion dollar theft of trade
secrets case against Hytera

ARRL say:

A jury for the US District Court of the Northern District of Illinois
has awarded Motorola Solutions damages of $764.6 million in its theft
of trade secrets and copyright infringement lawsuit against Hytera
Communications of Shenzhen, China— the maximum Motorola Solutions had
sought.

In early 2017 Motorola filed complaints in federal court alleging that
Hytera’s digital mobile radio (DMR) products employed techniques and
systems that infringed on Motorola Solutions’ patents and trade
secrets. Already known for its Land Mobile Radio Service products,
Hytera entered the Amateur Radio DMR market in 2016. Its ham products
include the Hytera AR482Gi digital mobile radio.

Motorola alleged that proprietary and patented information was taken
illegally by three former company engineers who went to work for
Hytera, as “part of a deliberate scheme to steal and copy” its
technology. The company said it would seek a global injunction to
prevent Hytera from trade secret misappropriation and copyright
infringement, a Motorola spokesperson said following the verdict.

“Today’s verdicts are a tremendous victory for Motorola Solutions and
a clear repudiation of the illegal and anticompetitive tactics
employed by Hytera over the last decade,” the company said in a
statement.

Motorola said technology features it developed started showing up in
Hytera products soon after Hytera began hiring former Motorola
engineers in 2008, according to the lawsuit.

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