After months of fighting at the playground, Motorola and Huawei have finally come to an agreement to settle their differences once and for all. Both parties have now dropped their pending lawsuits, with Motorola originally accusing Huawei of stealing trade secrets from its former employees, and afterward Huawei getting all worried about Motorola leaking confidential information over their partnership to the rivaling Nokia Siemens Networks. The hot agreement will now allow Motorola “transfer its commercial agreements with Huawei to NSN for a fee,” which might then permit NSN use this info to service Motorola’s networks that utilise Huawei’s equipment. Aww, isn’t it nice when money solves everything? Press release after the break.
CHICAGO, Ill. – April 13, 2011 Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI) and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. announced today that they have got entered into an agreement to settle all pending litigation between the 2 parties pending the satisfaction of certain conditions. For its part, after further review of the problem, Motorola Solutions has agreed to withdraw its claims and dismiss, with prejudice, Huawei as a defendant within the Motorola v. Lemko, et al. litigation pending within the Chicago federal district court. For its part, Huawei has agreed to withdraw its claims and dismiss, with prejudice, its lawsuit against Motorola Solutions and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) within the Chicago federal district court and to unravel its claims against Motorola Solutions and NSN by moving into an agreement that permits Motorola Solutions to transfer its commercial agreements with Huawei to NSN for a fee, and allows NSN to receive and use Huawei confidential information to service the networks Motorola deployed worldwide using Huawei’s products and technologies.
In 2000, Motorola and Huawei entered into a terrific, successful commercial relationship by which Motorola resold certain Huawei products under the Motorola name. Over a higher ten years, Motorola purchased $880 million in technology from Huawei that covered core networks and radio access networks.
“We regret that these disputes have occurred between our two companies. Motorola Solutions values the long-standing relationship we have now had with Huawei. After reviewing the facts, we decided to unravel these matters and return to our traditional relationship of confidence and trust. i’m pleased that we will be able to again specialise in having a cooperative and productive relationship,” said Greg Brown, President & CEO of Motorola Solutions.
“Throughout our decade long relationship with Motorola Solutions, Huawei has contributed innovative technology to Motorola Solutions to be used all over the world. Huawei provided Motorola’s experts and counsel with source code and millions of documents. Huawei acted properly and above board continually and developed its products independently and without using any Motorola trade secrets. With the resolution of those cases, and the misunderstandings put to rest, Huawei is pleased to head forward with its efforts to present innovative solutions to its customers,” said Guo Ping, Vice president of the Board and Executive Vp of Huawei.
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