Government’s Response Due Jan. 26 to Hytera’s Motion to Dismiss Indictment

U.S. District Judge John Tharp for Northern Illinois in Chicago granted Hytera Communications’ motion to file under seal its motion to dismiss the government’s criminal indictment for failure to present evidence of trade secrets to the grand jury (see 2401120014), said a docket entry notification Friday (docket 1:20-cr-00688). The government’s response to Hytera’s motion to dismiss is due Jan. 26, said the notification. A grand jury in May 2021 returned indictments listing 22 counts of trade secret theft against the company and seven of its engineers who developed digital mobile radios for Motorola in Malaysia beginning in 2004 (see 2301260060). The engineers quit Motorola in 2008 and 2009 to go to work for Hytera in Shenzhen, and the government alleges they took Motorola’s DMR trade secrets with them when they left.