Australian Court Dismisses Half of Motorola Solutions’ Copyright and Patent Infringement Allegations Against Hytera

Hytera Communications, this week announced that the Federal Court of Australia has dismissed half of Motorola Solutions, Inc’s copyright and patent infringement allegations against Hytera in a judgment delivered on December 23, 2022. The legal proceedings commenced by Motorola Solutions relate to certain Hytera legacy DMR radios, and software formerly used in selected models of Hytera DMR radios. In the proceedings, Motorola made allegations of both patent infringement and copyright infringement.  

According to Hytera, the Court dismissed Motorola's allegations of patent infringement in respect of two of the three patents relied on by Motorola. Further, one of those patents was also found to be invalid.  

While the Court upheld Motorola's allega...