Motorola sues Huawei and several former employees for stealing wireless trade secrets
By Nilay Patel 
posted July 21st 2010 8:45PM
posted July 21st 2010 8:45PM
According to the complaint, part of the scheme was ultimately blown up when one of the employees was arrested by Customs at O'Hare airport en route to China with $30,000 in cash and over 1,000 pages of documentation regarding Motorola's various communications networking tech, while another employee was caught buying Motorola phones in bulk and sending unlock codes and dump files to Lemko for reverse engineering purposes. Motorola also says that it doesn't yet know the exact relationship between Lemko, Huawei and some of the former employees because "file destruction software" was installed and run on computers before they were turned over as evidence, but the company claims that Huawei was aware it was receiving proprietary Motorola information the entire time it was in contact with the former employees. Yes, it's all very juicy -- we'll be watching this one closely.
Wowzers.... looks like Droid does Lawsuits
Corporate espionage: Droid don't play dat.
@Plazmic Flame Looks like Huawei had some Bothan Spies undercover at Moto
@Failbait What?
@Plazmic Flame
Moto ain't all that innovative. The Droid is very recent, so we are talking I guess Razr tech here.
@Plazmic Flame They dun goofed!
@Plazmic Flame All these patent stealing companies need to go down! Pay licensing like everyone else. There's a reason why companies like Motorolla, Microsoft, Palm and Nokia have been around in the mobile real for ages!
@Plazmic Flame
This is interesting, especially when NSN acquiring Motorola's network equipment business. Huawei is a competitor to NSN (Nokia Siemens Networks) and I wonder if there is any connection here.
Just a thought.
@iqbalj the razr revolutionized the entire consumer electronic industry. Moving design from round with plasticky surfaces to thinner with metal elements and designer colors. Where the hell were you, are you 16? The razr line also made the first hi specced phones mainstream and was one of the first phones to be heavily market by the manufacturer.
wtf?
BROOL STORY CO
@kb24istrash Slysdexic much?
When will we stop depending on PDF format?
@FrmrPSPCoderTOPAppStoreDev
Stop hating on Adobe for no good reason pdf's are fine
@FrmrPSPCoderTOPAppStoreDev I could understand your complaint maybe if they were just scanned pages shoved together in a PDF format, but for real (and uniquely formatted) text files, PDF files work well and the platform is open enough that they can be read most anywhere if the author so chooses. Heck you can even use cloud services such as those offered by Google to not even have to touch any additional software/hardware product.
@FrmrPSPCoderTOPAppStoreDev
When will we stop depending on AVI, TXT and HTML files?
Gee, I've spent what now, a sum total of zero in my life on Adobe products and I can do what I like with PDF files.
What a jerk... to carry so much cash and expect to not get busted..!!
@techadditct
Yeah you would think that someone with the level of education that these engineers have would know that you can't walk through a friggin airport with $30K in cash and get away with it.
@OverDriven "I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up 'money laundering' in a dictionary."
@techadditct 2010 is the year of spies! or spy busts, I hope we hear more of those awesome movie like spy cases.
@OverDriven Unfortunately they know now... and are probably getting away with hoards of American Intellectual Property.
Happily Sings - "Sue... Sue... Sue-Dio!"
Palm pre 2 "CONFIRMED" To be released somtime this year.
thank god some good old fashioned corporate espionage. this is a breath of fresh air after reading about all the frivolous patent infringement suits and counter suits. apple and nokia pay attention this is how the pros do it; now ball your fist up and stop having slap fights
@Aerilus yeah that's the way to do it! When will Apple spys in finland blow?
K
But...the Chinese are our friends!
@therealmusashi More like our overlords =).
@therealmusashi : "But you, like an idiot, want to take over the world. And you don't even realize that there is no world anymore! It's only corporations!"
@(Unverified)
This Korean guy likes more like "cancer" to me.
@(Unverified) Lawl, are you quite done speaking for "us"? You are an example of a brainwashed disgrace.
@(Unverified) I'd rather hang around the poorest of the poor Chinese any day, than the asshole that you've proven yourself to be.
@(Unverified)
Lol at racist Asians thinking that they are superior to each other.
Japanese companies copied tech in the 70s; Korean companies copied in the 90s, and Chinese companies are copying now. The different development rates were just due to foreign stimulation of the relative economies after the wars and invasions in the early part of the 20th century.
I'm guessing that in 20 more years Asians will end up killing each other because they can never find a way to work together, preferring instead to live under the pretense that their neighbors are inferior.
Get along, people.
Isn't Huawei just another KIRF company?
@TareG
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Thought this Huawei company specialized in the ebook reader...
by the way... there ebook reader is even more expensive then Sony ones
@TareG Used to be. They've been winning innovation awards left and right in recent years and have pioneered LTE. The most anyone can do now is talk about the issues they had with stealing IP over half a decade ago like Snowdog below just did haha. It'll be interesting if Motorola wins this lawsuit though.
No surprise. This is pretty much business as usual for Chinese companies. Especially Huawei.
Using Ciscos code in their routers:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/77818/Cisco_sues_Huawei_over_intellectual_property
Or spying a year later at a trade show.
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=55172&site=supercomm
@Snowdog
Wait Chinese internet will be here soon to set us all straight...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/26/china.astroturf/index.html
@Snowdog
So Huawei must be stealing if their rivals say so. Then by your logic, Apple/Nokia/Rim must be all stealing from each other.
@novel127
No their is proof that they steal ip not speculation.
Old news. I think it happened when Android was just a bundle of patents sitting at Danger and the iPhone wasn't released and Steve Jobs was only worth a few billion.
Hawaii? Where?
another apple vs htc story
Is hu flung pu on this list?
If not, he should be!
America if this doesn't wake you up... nothing will and we'll continue to give trade secrets to the Communist Chinese. They are not our friends and have a long term plan to destroy us, both financially and militarily. Administration after Administration has given China our technology all in the hopes that they would open up their markets to our companies... and all for NOT. They've done none of it. They force our companies to develop in China to do business. They force our companies to manufacturer in China to sell in China... Soon they will not need our companies in China as they will have all the technology and the ability to develop it further... See how HUAWEI stole Cisco's OS and currently sell it in China. This is not a game AND WE'RE LOSING BIG TIME.... WAKE UP!!!
I am shocked! Shocked that a Chinese company is engaged in industrial espionage!
This is just a bitching act in light of the recent NSN acquisition of Motorola's Network department. Motorola has been in close cooperation with Huawei in the last 7-8 years. Huawei was in the position of sharing technology with Motorola, not the other way around. Now, Moto hangs out with NSN, who sees Huawei as the archenemy, and desperately try to sever all ties with Huawei. This is a just part of the act of dumping ex. after you find the new sweetheart.
@munford You could not be more wrong and have no idea what you're talking about. Huawei is a Chinese Government business run by one of the PEOPLE's Top Military Brass. Though there has been some cooperation with Huawei for business purposes to gain access to the Chinese markets (something that never really happened I might add), the technology that was shared was for legacy equipment. The technology they stole and now sell is new technology and they are selling or trying to sell it across the Globe. Just ask Cisco how this process works... they are intimately familiar.
@Droidum Troll will always troll, that's all I can say about ya.
@hmmwv You're clearly a plant... and that's all I can say about ya!