Appeal judges say lower court stumbled with ruling over without prejudice negotiations
Gareth Corfield Wed 13 Jan 2021 // 14:45 UTC Share
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Motorola must pay a Chinese mobile network radio maker more than £800,000 after losing a Court of Appeal case over claims its rival threatened to retreat to China and evade a previous judgment.
The complex case was summarised in a Court of Appeal ruling where senior judges reversed a High Court asset-freezing order against Hytera Communications Corporation Ltd, a digital mobile radio (DMR) biz.
Motorola previously sued Hytera in the US. Back in 2008, the Chinese company allegedly lured three of Motorola s engineers into its own ranks, taking confidential documents and source code with them. A US jury duly awarded Motorola $763m in compensatory and punitive damages in February 2020.