A U.S. judge has dealt a setback to Motorola in a legal dispute with Chinese company Huawei Technologies over Motorola's planned sale of its networks business, The Chicago Tribune reported on Tuesday.
Huawei sued on Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, claiming that the sale of the networks business to Nokia Siemens Networks would represent a misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract between Motorola and Huawei.
Later on Monday, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman entered a temporary restraining order that bars Motorola, Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility from disclosing confidential Huawei information to Nokia Siemens Networks.
Motorola and Huawei have a series of agreements dating to 2000 governing wireless technologies that Huawei developed for Motorola to resell under its own brand. Huawei said it does not want those agreements reassigned to Nokia Siemens Networks because it sells competing hardware and software to the same customers as the European company.
Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks announced their 1.2 billion U.S. dollars transaction last July.
Huawei sued on Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, claiming that the sale of the networks business to Nokia Siemens Networks would represent a misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract between Motorola and Huawei.
Later on Monday, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman entered a temporary restraining order that bars Motorola, Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility from disclosing confidential Huawei information to Nokia Siemens Networks.
Motorola and Huawei have a series of agreements dating to 2000 governing wireless technologies that Huawei developed for Motorola to resell under its own brand. Huawei said it does not want those agreements reassigned to Nokia Siemens Networks because it sells competing hardware and software to the same customers as the European company.
Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks announced their 1.2 billion U.S. dollars transaction last July.
