"wirelessweek" declare : T-Mobile Takes Home $4.8M in Trade Secrets Suit Against Huawei

Although the jury awarded damages under the breach of contract allegation, the amount was a small fraction of what T-Mobile requested. "According to the jury's verdict, T-Mobile was not awarded any damages relating to the trade secrets claim and there was no award of punitive damages. In its original complaint, T-Mobile accused two Huawei employees of stealing designs and pieces of its smartphone-testing robot, Tappy. Huawei allegedly used the technology to build its own version of the robot to test Huawei handsets sold to other carriers. The Chinese company, which cut its supply ties with T-Mobile after the lawsuit was filed, said it fired two employees for inappropriate actions but disputed the Un-carrier's claims about stealing trade secrets.


according to Huawei did build its own testing robot, xDeviceRobot, but it did so to replicate T-Mobile's stringent testing environment and improve its phones. The jury found that Huawei misappropriated T-Mobile's trade secret — a smartphone testing robot named Tappy — but didn't do it in a "willful and malicious" manner. T-Mobile claimed Huawei sent an engineer to T-Mobile headquarters on a "reconnaissance" mission to get photos and other information about Tappy. The jury found that T-Mobile suffered no losses due to the misappropriation of Tappy and declined to award punitive damages. According to the jury's verdict, T-Mobile was not awarded any damages relating to the trade secrets claim and there was no award of punitive damages.


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Jury awards T-Mobile $4.8M in trade-secrets case against Huawei

A jury decided that Huawei misappropriated trade secrets belonging to T-Mobile in a series of incidents that occurred in 2012 and 2013. The lawsuit, filed by T-Mobile in 2014, claimed that two Huawei Device USA employees spied on a smartphone-testing robot T-Mobile had in its Bellevue lab. A Seattle jury decided that Huawei misappropriated trade secrets about a T-Mobile smartphone-testing robot in a series of incidents that occurred in 2012 and 2013. A long-running lawsuit that T-Mobile filed in 2014 against Chinese smartphone maker Huawei concluded in federal court in Seattle this week. The Seattle jury on Wednesday determined that Huawei had misappropriated T-Mobile's trade secrets, and that it breached a handset supply contract between the two companies.




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