"GeekWire" said : Jury sides with T-Mobile in federal lawsuit over theft of ‘Tappy’ robot technology by Huawei – GeekWire

referring to T-Mobile claimed Huawei sent an engineer to T-Mobile headquarters on a "reconnaissance" mission to get photos and other information about Tappy. RELATED: T-Mobile and Huawei make closing arguments in alleged theft of 'Tappy' robot technologyA jury trial on the matter began in late April and both sides wrapped closing arguments this week. A federal jury sided with T-Mobile in a long-running dispute with Chinese telecom giant Huawei over a smartphone-testing robot. Huawei did build its own testing robot, xDeviceRobot, but it did so to replicate T-Mobile's stringent testing environment and improve its phones. Although the jury awarded damages under the breach of contract allegation, the amount was a small fraction of what T-Mobile requested.


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T-Mobile and Huawei make closing arguments in alleged theft of 'Tappy' robot technology – GeekWire

T-Mobile claims Huawei sent an engineer to T-Mobile headquarters on a "reconnaissance" mission to get photos and other information about Tappy. In this case, ultimately, you build a robot that runs the test T-Mobile runs with Tappy."As to the "reconnaissance" mission and alleged theft of the robot piece, Hibey said T-Mobile gave Huawei access to labs. Just because something is covered by a confidentiality agreement doesn't make it a trade secret, he said. The two companies were working together, and T-Mobile wanted to streamline testing processes with Huawei, Hibey said. James Hibey, arguing on behalf of Huawei, countered that Tappy is far from a trade secret.