HUAWEI Technologies Co. on late Tuesday won a federal court order barring Motorola Solutions Inc. from disclosing a variety of confidential Huawei information to rival Nokia Siemens Networks.
But Motorola Solutions said it was pleased the judge had denied Huawei s request to block the US$1.2 billion sale of its networks business to Nokia Siemens.
Shenzhen-based Huawei had sued last month to block the sale, demanding that terms be altered to protect its trade secrets and intellectual property rights.
The defendants include Motorola Solutions, which holds the network equipment unit being sold, and Nokia Siemens, a venture of Finland s Nokia Oyj and Germany s Siemens AG.
In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman in Chicago said Huawei had shown a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits of its claim that Motorola Solutions and Nokia Siemens might misappropriate trade secrets, and that irreparable competitive harm could result.
But Nick Sweers, a Motorola Solutions spokesman, said his company was extremely pleased that the judge denied Huawei s request to block the sale of the networks business to Nokia Siemens.
A lawyer for Huawei did not immediately return a call seeking a comment. A lawyer for Nokia Siemens also did not immediately return a call.
China s antitrust regulator has been reviewing the US$1.2 billion transaction, and Nokia Siemens has said the review has delayed the closing, which was expected last year.
Sweers said Motorola Solutions still hoped to close the transaction this quarter.
Another defendant, Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., was dismissed from the case Feb. 11, court records show.
Motorola Mobility was split from the rest of Motorola on Jan. 4.
(SD-Agencies)
