Chinese company Huawei Technologies has filed a lawsuit against Motorola in order to prevent it to disclose confidential information to Nokia Siemens Networks.
Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between the Finnish company Nokia and Germany’s Siemens, announced last year that the division wants to buy wireless equipment from Motorola (in the context of restructuring the company) to become more competitive against its main competitors on the U.S. market – Ericsson and Huawei.
Huawei, however, opposed the sale, given Motorola’s UMTS technology resale under their own name, WiMax and LTE embedded in products – namely GSM and CDMA – manufactured by Chinese company.
Therefore, to ensure that Motorola will not transfer its technology illegally to Nokia Siemens Networks, Huawei initiated a process for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights, obtaining a temporary restraining order.
According to the order issued by a court in Illinois, Motorola is not allowed to disclose any information about the Chinese company to Nokia Siemens Networks.
Under these conditions, the transaction worth $1.2 billion Dollars between Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks remains uncertain.