CHICAGO – January 14, 2025 – Hytera Communications Corporation Limited (SHE: 002583) has entered a felony guilty plea and executed a Plea Agreement to address the U.S. Department of Justice’s criminal prosecution of Hytera for misappropriation and theft of confidential trade secrets and proprietary information belonging to Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI).

Jan 14, 2025 · LMR manufacturer Hytera Communications will pay a fine up to $60 million and must make “full restitution” to Motorola Solutions after pleading guilty to conspiring to steal DMR trade secrets from Motorola more than 16 years ago, according to a plea agreement released today by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ).

Jan 14, 2025 · Federal prosecutors have said Shenzen-based Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd. recruited and hired former Motorola Solutions employees and directed them to steal digital mobile radio technology...

Jan 14, 2025 · Chinese telecommunications company Hytera Communications has pleaded guilty in Illinois federal court to stealing Motorola Solutions trade secrets covering digital mobile radio technology, the...

Jan 14, 2025 · Under the terms of a plea agreement, Hytera may be fined up to $60 million. The Court must also order Hytera to make full restitution to Motorola, in an amount to be determined by the Court at sentencing. The sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 6, 2025, before U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp, Jr.

Jan 14, 2025 · In pleading guilty to felony conspiracy charges, Hytera admitted that it knowingly agreed to take, without authorization, Motorola Solutions documents and source code related to DMR technology,...

In 2017, Motorola sued Hytera for copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation. The jury found that Hytera had violated both the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) and the Copyright Act, awarding compensatory and punitive damages totaling $764.6 million.

Aug 26, 2023 · Motorola has shown by clear and convincing evidence that the only efforts Hytera made were through its subsidiary offering to pledge shares of another company (but not relinquish the voting rights tied to those

The evidence presented at trial demonstrated that Hytera stole over 10,000 Motorola Solutions confidential documents, millions of lines of Motorola Solutions’ highly confidential source code and took steps to conceal its theft to avoid detection.

Feb 7, 2022 · The indictment alleges that PRC-based Hytera Communications Corp. LTD recruited and hired Motorola Solutions employees and directed them to take proprietary and trade secret information from Motorola without authorization.